Summary of Objectives

• Understand the general function of a filter bank.

• Understand the background and details of the filter bank model of the human auditory periphery.

• Differentiate between the various auditory filter bank models, along with their applications in contemporary scientific inquiry.

• Generate and analyze sound spectrograms corresponding to the output of a provided auditory filter bank implementation. These spectrograms will allow the student to explore the auditory filter bank representations of various vowel sounds.