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A context-based model to predict the intelligibility of sentences in non-stationary noises
Jelmer van Schoonhoven1, Koenraad S Rhebergen2, Wouter A Dreschler1
1Department of Clinical and Experimental Audiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
The context-based Extended Speech Transmission Index (cESTI) (van Schoonhoven et al., 2022, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151, 1404-1415) was successfully applied to predict the intelligibility of monosyllabic words with different degrees of context in interrupted noise. The current study aimed to use the same model for the prediction of sentence intelligibility in different types of non-stationary noise. The necessary context factors and transfer functions were based on values found in existing literature. The cESTI performed similar to or better than the original ESTI when noise had speech-like characteristics. We hypothesize that the remaining inaccuracies in model predictions can be attributed to the limits of the modelling approach with regard to mechanisms, such as modulation masking and informational masking.
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