Analisis Bentuk Pola Suara Menggunakan Ekstraksi Ciri Mel-Frequencey Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)

Sound is a part of the human body that is unique and can be distinguished, so its application can be used in sound pattern recognition technology, one of which is used for sound biometrics. This study discusses the analysis of the form of a sound pattern that aims to determine the shape of the sound pattern of a person's character based on the spoken voice input. This study discusses the analysis of the form of a sound pattern that aims to determine the shape of the sound pattern of a person's character based on the spoken voice input. This study uses the Melf-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) method for feature extraction process from speaker speech signals. The MFCC process will convert the sound signal into several feature vectors which will then be displayed in graphical form. Analysis and design of sound patterns using Matlab 2017a software. Tests were carried out on 5 users consisting of 3 men and 2 women, each user said 1 predetermined "LOGIN" word, which for 15 words said. The results of the test are the form of a sound pattern between the characteristics of 1 user with other users. Keywords—Voice, Pattern, Feature Extraction, MFCC

Songbirds use spectral shape, not pitch, for sound pattern recognition

Humans easily recognize “transposed” musical melodies shifted up or down in log frequency. Surprisingly, songbirds seem to lack this capacity, although they can learn to recognize human melodies and use complex acoustic sequences for communication. Decades of research have led to the widespread belief that songbirds, unlike humans, are strongly biased to use absolute pitch (AP) in melody recognition. This work relies almost exclusively on acoustically simple stimuli that may belie sensitivities to more complex spectral features. Here, we investigate melody recognition in a species of songbird, the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), using tone sequences that vary in both pitch and timbre. We find that small manipulations altering either pitch or timbre independently can drive melody recognition to chance, suggesting that both percepts are poor descriptors of the perceptual cues used by birds for this task. Instead we show that melody recognition can generalize even in the absence of pitch, as long as the spectral shapes of the constituent tones are preserved. These results challenge conventional views regarding the use of pitch cues in nonhuman auditory sequence recognition.

An auditory feature detection circuit for sound pattern recognition

From human language to birdsong and the chirps of insects, acoustic communication is based on amplitude and frequency modulation of sound signals. Whereas frequency processing starts at the level of the hearing organs, temporal features of the sound amplitude such as rhythms or pulse rates require processing by central auditory neurons. Besides several theoretical concepts, brain circuits that detect temporal features of a sound signal are poorly understood. We focused on acoustically communicating field crickets and show how five neurons in the brain of females form an auditory feature detector circuit for the pulse pattern of the male calling song. The processing is based on a coincidence detector mechanism that selectively responds when a direct neural response and an intrinsically delayed response to the sound pulses coincide. This circuit provides the basis for auditory mate recognition in field crickets and reveals a principal mechanism of sensory processing underlying the perception of temporal patterns.