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The effect of smoothing filter slope and spectral frequency on temporal speech information
Eric W Healy1, Heidi M Steinbach
1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. ewh@sc.edu
Abstract:
It is known that information contained within the filter skirts can provide cues important to speech intelligibility. However, the role of filter slope during temporal smoothing has received little attention. In experiment 1, smoothing filter slope angle was found to have a large effect on the intelligibility of sentences represented by three amplitude-modulated sinusoids. In experiment 2, the use of temporal cues above 16 Hz was examined across various regions of the spectrum. When increases in rate were presented to individual spectral bands, intelligibility only increased when presented in the higher spectral region. This result suggests a greater reliance on higher-rate cues in this region. However, intelligibility was greatest when these cues were distributed across the spectrum, indicating that their effective use is not restricted solely to this region.
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