As "Nyquist" is to "sample rate" "????" is to "sample period/duration/width/?" ?

Eric Jacobsen wrote:
> I think you cheated on V and Z, though.
> 

Yup.  Suggestions are welcome.

V as in vee
Z as in zee (or zed)

Any help with R and U would also be appreciated, as this is an incomplete work.

BTW, when one of the old Navy guys in our group sent the military phonetic 
alpahbet to the operator, she flew off the handle.  He was blackballed, and 
could no longer be paged.  I wish *I* had done that instead of him, because 
paging was WAY overused.  Most of the time when I'd answer a page, it would turn 
out to be for "Kim Thomas" rather than "Jim Thomas."

I guess over-paging eventually got to the execs too, because they made the rule 
that no one could be paged unless it was an "emergency."  We got around that by 
devising a code.  To page someone, all we had to do was tell the operator that 
someone left his lights on, describe the pagee's car, and give his 
initials+extension-to-dial as the plate number.

We used it exactly once to try it out (and it worked).  But we never needed to 
page one another, so the no-paging-except-in-an-emergency rule was actually 
quite nice.

-- 
Jim Thomas            Principal Applications Engineer  Bittware, Inc
jthomas@bittware.com  http://www.bittware.com    (603) 226-0404 x536
Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse. - Calvin

Jim Thomas wrote:
> O as in ofal

Oops!  should have been "offal" which is pronounced pretty much the same way as 
"awful."

-- 
Jim Thomas            Principal Applications Engineer  Bittware, Inc
jthomas@bittware.com  http://www.bittware.com    (603) 226-0404 x536
Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse. - Calvin

"Jim Thomas" <jthomas@bittware.com> wrote in message
news:10l0qlrqjnn7h4b@corp.supernews.com...
> Eric Jacobsen wrote:
> > I think you cheated on V and Z, though.
> >
>
> Yup.  Suggestions are welcome.
>
> V as in vee
> Z as in zee (or zed)

Z as in zwieback?

Martin Blume wrote:

> "Richard Owlett" schrieb
> 
>>As "Nyquist" is to "sample rate"
>> "????" is to "sample period/duration/width/?"  ?
> 
> 
> As "sample rate" is  "1 / (sample period)"
> "sample period" is to "1/Nyquist"
> 

Well, "YES" and "NO" ;)

This and post which mentioned connection between "sample duration (poor 
word)" and "frequency resolution" which in a sense I "knew" but has yet 
to become intuitive.

I think the responses not only show me how poorly stated my question 
was. But give me hints on how to restate.


I'll rethink and repost, probably under a different subject line.


> This may be answer to your question, but not of much help.
> 
> I think you are mixing up two domains here: the one of
> strict mathematics and signal processing and the other one
> - much fuzzier - about the human perception of hearing and
> the generation of speech. While human hearing is obviously
> based on the same mathematics and physics of acoustics, there
> are many tricks that evolution has come up with.

Two domains -- quite probably ( though not those mentioned ;)
More like confusing to basis sets that are not related although both may 
have a vector with same units of measure.


> You might want to check the "Scientist's and Engineer's Guide
> to Digital Signal Processing":
> http://www.analog.com/processors/resources/technicalLibrary/manuals/
> training/materials/pdf/dsp_book_frontmat.pdf
> especially chapter 22, "Audio Processing".

Downloaded Chapter 22. Sub headings relevant to my overall 'problem'.
Why do i not think my yard will get attention this weekend.]

> 
> HTH
> Martin
> 
> 
> 

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:38:18 -0500, Richard Owlett
<rowlett@atlascomm.net> wrote:

  (snipped)
>
>Downloaded Chapter 22. Sub headings relevant to my overall 'problem'.
>Why do i not think my yard will get attention this weekend.]
>

Ha ha.   Don't worry.  
You can mow the yard next weekend.

If your wife nags you, just tell her that 
you're making significant technological 
"break-throughs" and can't be bothered
with lawn-mowing right now.

Tell her that "speech processing" 
is far far far more important than the 
stinkin' grass.

Good Luck,
[-Rick-]
  

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:32:36 -0400, Jim Thomas <jthomas@bittware.com>
wrote:

  (snipped)

Hi Jim,
    that was a fun post.

There's a radio commercial here in northern California for some sort 
of mortgage company.  The company name is Vitech, or Bitech, or
Ditech.   I can't tell.

The commercial ends with, "That's the Vitech with a "V", or it 
could be "That's the Bitech with a "B", or it 
could be "That's the Ditech with a "D".  Those knuckled-headed 
adverticisers don't know what they're doing!!

Ha ha,

[-Rick-]

Rick Lyons wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:32:36 -0400, Jim Thomas <jthomas@bittware.com>
> wrote:
> 
>   (snipped)
> 
> Hi Jim,
>     that was a fun post.
> 
> There's a radio commercial here in northern California for some sort 
> of mortgage company.  The company name is Vitech, or Bitech, or
> Ditech.   I can't tell.
> 
> The commercial ends with, "That's the Vitech with a "V", or it 
> could be "That's the Bitech with a "B", or it 
> could be "That's the Ditech with a "D".  Those knuckled-headed 
> adverticisers don't know what they're doing!!
> 
> Ha ha,
> 
> [-Rick-]
> 

It's a Dog Ditech. Arkansas Ozark hillbillies must have better 
enunciation than the left coast ( Don't hear that ad, but another ad 
nauseam )

The loan ad that gets me is Wells Fargo Home Mortgage advertising their 
*interest only* home loan.

Tag line is that they want you as customer for life.
They also claim their mortgages have a shorter term than competitor.

The first is problem of slogan attached to ad without thinking.
Second is actually a punctuation error. But if you are just listening, 
you just go "WHAT?!!! ,/