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From: turlough@odyssey.ucc.ie (Turlough FitzPatrick)
Subject: Re: McGurk Effect
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 10:57:05 GMT
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as far as I am aware the McGurk Effect ( also called
cross-modal confusion) occurs when conflicting
visual and audio input is given.What I mean is to 
have a person in an isolated booth with a set of 
headphones on(the subject), and a person outside 
the booth visable to the subject. The person outside 
then starts speaking but different sounds are
sent to the listener. For example the speaker says 'p'
and the listener is sent 'b'.  The McGurk Effect, then
is when the listener thinks they heard 'p'.
This would suggest that visual input contributes to
speech perception/aquisition and might suggest that
in order to reduce the error on current speech rec.
techniques that visual input should also be saught.
Here's a reference:
Authors: McGurk, H. and MacDonald, J.
Title:  "Hearing lips and seeing voices"
Journal: Nature
Issue: 264
Pages: 746-748
Year: 1976
