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The speech-to-song illusion is an auditory illusion discovered by Diana Deutsch in 1995. A spoken phrase is repeated several times, without altering it in any way, and without providing any context. This repetition causes the phrase to transform perceptually from speech into song.
Speech-to-Song Illusion. The Speech-to-Song Illusion was discovered by Deutsch in 1995, when she was fine-tuning the spoken commentary on her CD ‘ Musical Illusions and Paradoxes ’ 1. She had the phrase ‘sometimes behave so strangely’ on a loop, and noticed that after a number of repetitions, the phrase sounded as though sung rather ...
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Feb 26, 2020 · This curious illusion has no obvious explanation in terms of current scientific thinking about the relationship between speech and song. The two forms of communication in general differ in their ...
Feb 8, 2024 · Abstract. In the speech-to-song illusion, certain spoken sentences start sounding like song when repeated several times. This perceptual transformation does not occur for all stimuli, suggesting that acoustic properties of the stimulus may contribute to the illusion. We investigated the contribution of the acoustic properties of vowels to this ...
Feb 26, 2020 · The Speech-to-Song Illusion. Crossing the borderline between speech and song. Posted Feb 26, 2020. In general, it would appear obvious that speech and song are distinct and separate forms...
The Speech-to-Song Illusion: Crossing the Borderline Between Speech and Song | Musical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain | Oxford Academic. Chapter.
Feb 10, 2024 · Our goal here is to see if, despite its simplicity and pure reliance on text, the model is able to capture the qualitative phenomenology of the speech-to-song illusion. Figure 2 shows the log-likelihoods and log-odds for both speech and song as a function of general word repetition (naturalistic: Figure 2 A-B, synthetic: Figure 2 C-D). We see ...
