Phonemes: Miller-Nicely Consonant Phoneme Confusion Data
Description
Miller-Nicely data on the auditory confusion of 16 consonant
phonemes.format
A symmetric matrix of the misclassification probabilities of 16
English consonant phonemes.source
The data set is also contained in file mapclus.data in the
shell archive http://www.netlib.org/mds/mapclus.shar.Details
Miller and Nicely (1955) obtained the confusions by exposing female
subjects to a series of syllables consisting of one of the 16
consonants followed by the vowel a under 17 different
experimental conditions. The data provided are obtained from
aggregating the six so-called flat-noise conditions in which only the
speech-to-noise ratio was varied into a single matrix of
misclassification frequencies.References
G. A. Miller and P. E. Nicely (1955).
An analysis of perceptual confusions among some English consonants.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 27,
338--352.