Fact · Speech recognition
Shannon and colleagues report that increasing the number of bands to beyond three or four gave no further improvement in their results.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“further improvement as the number of bands increased to three or four”
Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues, Robert V. Shannon et al., Science, 1995, Results, voicing and manner.
Open the original (DOI 10.1126/science.270.5234.303)- What it measures
- The sentence refers to information on voicing and manner, the features of speech that the authors measured with a confusion matrix. Those results rose from one band to two, then stopped improving.
- What it does not show
- The sentence covers the voicing and manner results, not every measure in the paper. The test used simulated speech and simple sentences.