Towards a Danish speech material for speech-on-speech masking investigations

Forfattere

  • Jens Bo Nielsen Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
  • Tobias Neher Eriksholm Research Centre, Oticon A/S, DK-3070 Snekkersten, Denmark
  • Torsten Dau Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark

Resumé

The objective of the present project is to create a Danish speech material designed specifically for investigations of speech-on-speech masking. Speech-on-speech masking is characterized by “informational” masking effects, often defined as the masking that speech creates in addition to the energetic masking by pure noise. In the present project, 804 unique sentences have been created, divided into three subsets, and uttered by three professional female talkers. Listening tests are in progress in order to compile test lists, each consisting of 20 sentences of approximately equal intelligibility. The final corpus is expected to consist of three sets of 10 test lists that are equally usable as target or masker signals. A pilot validation of the corpus has shown a high average speech recognition threshold (SRT) and a relatively small test-retest standard deviation compared to other materials.

Referencer

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Publiceret

2011-12-15

Citation/Eksport

Nielsen, J. B., Neher, T., & Dau, T. (2011). Towards a Danish speech material for speech-on-speech masking investigations. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, 3, 175–181. Hentet fra https://proceedings.isaar.eu/index.php/isaarproc/article/view/2011-21

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Sektion

2011/1. Indicators of hearing impairment and measures of speech perception