Saturation and time domain parameters

1.1 The topic of my talk will be the saturation of speech signals and its effect on time domain parameters. 1.2 I will present some preliminary (mainly) theoretic results. 1.3 The basic idea is very simple: starting from some synthesized and natural speech signals artificially saturated deduce quantitative criteria (the so called “diagnostic cues”) so to determine if a speech signal underwent saturation, which kind of saturation and the degree of the saturation. 1.4 The main aim is to quantify the reliability of the time domain parameters that can be extracted from such speech signals.