Effect of talker variability on speech perception by elderly people in reverberation

Authors

  • Nao Hodoshima Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 102-8554, Japan
  • Takayuki Arai Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 102-8554, Japan

Abstract

It has been reported that elderly people have much more dif culty in perceiving speech in reverberation compared to young people with normal hearing. This study investigated how characteristics of talker's speech affected speech perception of elderly people in reverberation to find speech materials that are easier to hear for elderly people in reverberation. In order to simulate various characteristics of talkers’ speech, sentences were produced by people who have received speech training or not with different speaking rates and styles. Stimuli were prepared by convolving the sentences with impulse responses from rooms, and nonsense word identification test was carried out with Japanese elderly people in a diotic listening condition. The results of this study would provide some characteristics of speech materials that are robust to reverberation for elderly people, and those characteristics would be particularly useful in the situation where perfect speech communication is required such as listening to a speech alarm.

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Published

2007-12-15

How to Cite

Hodoshima, N., & Arai, T. (2007). Effect of talker variability on speech perception by elderly people in reverberation. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, 1, 383–388. Retrieved from https://proceedings.isaar.eu/index.php/isaarproc/article/view/2007-36

Issue

Vol. 1 (2007): Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing Impaired Listeners

Section

2007/4. Speech perception and processing

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