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Energetic and Informational Components of Speech-on-Speech Masking in Binaural Speech Intelligibility and Perceived Listening Effort
Rennies, Jan; Best, Virginia; Roverud, Elin; Kidd, Gerald. - : SAGE Publications, 2019
Abstract: Speech perception in complex sound fields can greatly benefit from different unmasking cues to segregate the target from interfering voices. This study investigated the role of three unmasking cues (spatial separation, gender differences, and masker time reversal) on speech intelligibility and perceived listening effort in normal-hearing listeners. Speech intelligibility and categorically scaled listening effort were measured for a female target talker masked by two competing talkers with no unmasking cues or one to three unmasking cues. In addition to natural stimuli, all measurements were also conducted with glimpsed speech—which was created by removing the time–frequency tiles of the speech mixture in which the maskers dominated the mixture—to estimate the relative amounts of informational and energetic masking as well as the effort associated with source segregation. The results showed that all unmasking cues as well as glimpsing improved intelligibility and reduced listening effort and that providing more than one cue was beneficial in overcoming informational masking. The reduction in listening effort due to glimpsing corresponded to increases in signal-to-noise ratio of 8 to 18 dB, indicating that a significant amount of listening effort was devoted to segregating the target from the maskers. Furthermore, the benefit in listening effort for all unmasking cues extended well into the range of positive signal-to-noise ratios at which speech intelligibility was at ceiling, suggesting that listening effort is a useful tool for evaluating speech-on-speech masking conditions at typical conversational levels.
Keyword: Original Article
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216519854597
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6557024/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31172880
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The importance of a broad bandwidth for understanding “glimpsed” speech(a))
In: J Acoust Soc Am (2019)
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Role of Binaural Temporal Fine Structure and Envelope Cues in Cocktail-Party Listening
Swaminathan, Jayaganesh; Mason, Christine R.; Streeter, Timothy M.. - : Society for Neuroscience, 2016
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A Flexible Question-and-Answer Task for Measuring Speech Understanding
Best, Virginia; Streeter, Timothy; Roverud, Elin. - : SAGE Publications, 2016
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