  Analysis tools used in research laboratories, for sound synthesis, by
musicians or sound engineers can be rather different. Discussion of the
assumptions and of the limitations of these tools permits to propose a first
tool as relevant and versatile as possible for all the sound actors with a
major aim: one must be able to listen to each element of the analysis because
hearing is the final reference tool. This tool should also be used, in the
future, to reinvestigate the definition of sound (or Acoustics) on the basis of
some recent works on musical instrument modeling, speech production and
loudspeakers design. Audio illustrations will be given.Paper 6041 presented at
the 116th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Berlin, 2004

Audio and Speech Processing;Sound