VALIDATION 7.0 Residue measurement
Figure 7.1 is a graph of the residue for the spoken word "sound". The only place where there is significant change is at the beginning of the word, at the sibilant "s". This is to be expected somewhat, as the "s" is a broadband sound closely related to white noise. The amount of residue present during the "s" may be symptomatic of a non-optimal threshold for switching between the two modes of the optimized algorithm; it may indicate that the algorithm did not switch to the "high bandwidth" mode at the beginning of the word. However, the lack of appreciable residue during the rest of the word does demonstrate the validity of the technique for band-limited signals.
An examination of the spectral content of the residue (figure 7.2) reveals several items of note. First, the spectral energy of all components removed is very low, below -60dB ( ). Second, there is aliasing about 11 kHz. This was expected, as a side effect of reducing the sample rate. Since the source was already determined to have very little power above 11 kHz, the removal of more of these energies is inconsequential.
Figure 7.2: Spectral content of difference signal.