Re: [OT] Re: jmlbeud ceararhtcs
Re: [OT] Re: jmlbeud ceararhtcs
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: jmlbeud ceararhtcs
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:37:21 -0700
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Bill Briggs wrote:
It would have been more interesting if Shannon had not used printed
language and had dealt with the phonemic transcription of spoken
language instead. I've been meaning to do this for years, and I
suspect that there is still a lot of redundancy (which is why spoken
the word is so robust to audio quality degradation while remaining
comprehensible), but something less than in written english (because
the phonemic representation is more compact).
At a lecture I attended in 1978 or 79, the keynote speaker talked about
this very thing. To exemplify what he meant, he kept turning his
microphone on and off while talking; we had no problem understanding
what he said, even though we heard only about half of it--in fractional
seconds bites.
As a hard-of-hearing person, I very much appreciate this redundancy
because it allows me to follow speech that I do not fully hear.
--Michelle
--
My body is not a democracy: you don't get a vote.
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