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Area of Science:

  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Speech Perception
  • Acoustic Phonetics

Background:

  • Consonant perception in noise is crucial for speech intelligibility.
  • Fine acoustic details significantly influence consonant recognition.
  • Existing models require refinement to capture complex auditory processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate an extended microscopic speech perception model.
  • To accurately predict consonant recognition and confusion scores in noisy conditions.
  • To provide a framework for understanding phoneme recognition in normal and impaired hearing.

Main Methods:

  • Extension of the Dau, Kollmeier, and Kohlrausch (1997) auditory signal processing model.
  • Evaluation using an extensive consonant perception dataset (Zaar and Dau, 2015).
  • Testing with 15 consonant-vowel combinations in white noise across various signal-to-noise ratios.

Main Results:

  • The proposed model achieved accurate predictions of consonant recognition scores.
  • The model successfully predicted consonant confusion scores, grouping errors perceptually.
  • High predictive power was demonstrated across a wide range of noise levels.

Conclusions:

  • Auditory preprocessing adaptations and cross-correlation template matching explain consonant perception.
  • The model offers a valuable framework for investigating hearing impairment effects.
  • This research advances understanding of phoneme recognition mechanisms in listeners.