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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Observing Virtual Social Interactions
Published on: July 6, 2011
Written standard sentence materials convey social information
Alayo Tripp1, Benjamin Munson1
1Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA tripp158@umn.edu, munso005@umn.edu.
Abstract:
The Harvard/IEEE (henceforth H/I) sentences are widely used for testing speech recognition in English. This study examined whether two talker characteristics, race and gender, are conveyed by 80 of the H/I sentences in their written form, and by a comparison set of sentences from the internet message board Reddit, which were expected to convey social information. As predicted, a significant proportion of raters reported perceiving race and gender information in the H/I sentences. Suggestions of how to manage the potential influence of this social information on measures of speech intelligibility are provided.
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