On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:10:04 GMT, Owen Duffy wrote:

I don't think they developed a technology solution to exploit the
cocktail party effect, but they did incorporate their knowledge of the
statistical / syllabic / sentence characteristics in their Time
Assignment Speech Interpolation (TASI) equipments, and TASI was quite
successful.

Hi Owen,

This mimics Paul McCartney's use of phase mixing in his music in the
late 70s. Earlier, I was using Reticon bucket-brigade chips to
develop a frequency independent delay line such that I could mix input
and output (much like the FIR/IIR topology of today's DSP technology,
except I was doing it in analog rather than digital) to obtain a
variable phase. I still have the breadbox sitting on the shelf. I
was anticipating using this device to place "voices" in the
stereo-space of program content that I was mixing for. The concept
was much too cerebral for the producer who simply wanted matched
levels.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC