Speech signal analysis with reallocated spectrogram

The limited joint time and frequency resolution of Fourier analysis makes an accurate analysis of speech signals difficult. Fourier analysis offers either good temporal accuracy or good frequency resolution, never both. Many methods have been proposed to overcome this limitation. The results do not show a great improvement in the readability of the representation due to the presence of many components in the speech signal. The reallocation defined by Kodera and al. (1978) seems a good way to improve the localisation of the spectrogram. Recent work simplified the implementation of this method, which makes it attractive. This paper explores the applicability of this method to the analysis of speech signals. >