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Virginia Best¹, Timothy Streeter², Elin Roverud²

¹Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA, USA ginbest@bu.edu.

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A novel question-and-answer speech task was developed, incorporating comprehension and dynamic listening scenarios. This flexible task, featuring true/false responses, shows promise for various auditory research applications.

Keywords:

dynamic conversations realistic tests speech comprehension

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Area of Science:

Auditory Perception
Speech Processing
Cognitive Science

Background:

Traditional sentence recall tasks lack comprehension elements.
Dynamic listening scenarios require adaptable speech tasks.
Existing tasks may not fully capture real-world auditory challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce a new speech task based on simple questions and answers.
Incorporate comprehension and dynamic listening elements.
Provide a flexible and scorable auditory task.

Main Methods:

Developed 227 question-answer pairs across six categories.
Recorded by 22 talkers (11 female, 11 male).
Presented pairs in noise and competing conversations with spatial dynamics.

Main Results:

Listeners indicated true/false for question-answer pairs.
Responses were quick button/key presses.
Preliminary experiments demonstrated task feasibility in varied conditions.

Conclusions:

The question-and-answer task is feasible and adaptable.
It offers a novel approach beyond simple sentence recall.
The task can be flexibly implemented for auditory research.