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Perceptual consequences of changes in vocoded speech parameters in various reverberation conditions
Szymon Drgas1, Magdalena A Blaszak
1Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Purpose:
To study the perceptual consequences of changes in parameters of vocoded speech in various reverberation conditions.
Method:
The 3 controlled variables were number of vocoder bands, instantaneous frequency change rate, and reverberation conditions. The effects were quantified in terms of (a) nonsense words' recognition scores for young normal-hearing listeners, (b) ease of listening based on the time of response (response delay), and (c) the subjective measure of difficulty (10-degree scale).
Results:
It has been shown that the fine structure of a signal is a relevant cue in speech perception in reverberation conditions. The results obtained for different number of bands, frequency-modulation cutoff frequencies, and reverberation conditions have shown that all these parameters are important for speech perception in reverberation.
Conclusions:
Only slow variations in the instantaneous frequency (<50 Hz) seem to play a critical role in speech intelligibility in anechoic conditions. In reverberant enclosures, however, fast fluctuations of instantaneous frequency are also significant.
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