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mel scale: a standalone construct

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mel scale1 CONSTRUCTMel scaleSTEVENS ET AL. · 1937

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Psychoacoustics

A perceptual scale of pitch distance

The mel scale is a perceptual scale of pitch on which equal numerical steps correspond to equal perceived differences in pitch, so that it departs from the physical frequency axis - roughly linear below about one kilohertz and compressive above it. Stevens, Volkmann, and Newman's 1937 A scale for the measurement of the psychological magnitude pitch built the first such scale from listeners' judgments of pitch intervals, and Stevens and Volkmann's 1940 The relation of pitch to frequency: A revised scale refined it. The referent is a psychophysical mapping from frequency to perceived pitch, anchored at one thousand mels for a one-kilohertz tone and still used in the mel-frequency features of speech processing.[1][2]

Unit
The mel - a unit of perceived pitch, one thousand mels at a one-kilohertz tone
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Derived from fractionation and interval-judgment experiments mapping frequency to perceived pitch

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References

  1. Stevens, S. S., Volkmann, J., & Newman, E. B. (1937). A scale for the measurement of the psychological magnitude pitch. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 8(3), 185-190. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1915893
  2. Stevens, S. S., & Volkmann, J. (1940). The relation of pitch to frequency: A revised scale. The American Journal of Psychology, 53(3), 329-353. https://doi.org/10.2307/1417526

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