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Is clear speech tailored to counter the effect of specific adverse listening conditions?

Author(s) -

Valérie Hazan,

Jeremy Grynpas,

Rachel E. Baker

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.4757698

Subject(s) - active listening , consonant , task (project management) , perception , speech recognition , speech perception , computer science , acoustics , audiology , psychology , communication , medicine , vowel , physics , management , neuroscience , economics

The study investigated the perception of speech produced to counter the effects of adverse listening conditions. Participants completed a problem-solving task with an interlocutor in good listening conditions (NB) or with the interlocutor hearing them via a vocoder (VOC) or babble (BAB). Keywords extracted from recordings were presented in babble for initial consonant identification. BAB tokens were identified faster than VOC or NB tokens even though VOC and BAB tokens were rated as similarly clear. Acoustic measures showed clarifications to be global rather than specifically enhancing phonological contrasts. These results suggest that clear speaking styles are tailored to listeners' needs.

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