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While playing the audio, we can hear a constant machine vibration and white noise in the background.
 
While playing the audio, we can hear a constant machine vibration and white noise in the background.
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Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Speech Analysis

Introduction

When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, he said "That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind." However,because all the noises (machine vibration,breathing and white noise in radio frequency), people cannot distinguish if he said "a man" or just "man". A lot of experts tried different methods but still could not extract the "a" from the background noise. Hence, the answer is still unknown.

This small project will focus on noise reduction techniques to increase the overall signal to noise ratio (SRN)
Two techniques will be introduced:

  • Bandpass Filter
  • Noise Gate

Original Speech Analysis

The original speech file can be found from NASA page: July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind
Play the audio
While playing the audio, we can hear a constant machine vibration and white noise in the background. The whole audio can be divided to 5 parts:



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Alumni Liaison

Ph.D. 2007, working on developing cool imaging technologies for digital cameras, camera phones, and video surveillance cameras.

Buyue Zhang