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Richard M Warren1, James A Bashford1, Peter W Lenz1
1Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA rmwarren@uwm.edu, bashford@uwm.edu, plenz@uwm.edu.
Abstract:
A previous study [Warren, Bashford, and Lenz (2017). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, EL222-EL227] reported that arrays of subcritical width rectangular speech bands can produce near ceiling sentence intelligibility. The present study used noise-vocoded subcritical band speech arrays with analysis bandwidths of 4%, 2%, 1%, or 0.5% of center frequency. Intelligibility decreased when analysis and noise carrier bandwidths were matched. However, expanding carrier noise bandwidths to a critical bandwidth of 1/3-octave (26%) produced array intelligibilities either equaling or substantially exceeding that of the original speech band arrays. Implications concerning bandwidth requirements of envelope processing and the redundancy of envelope cues are discussed.
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