Open AccessPrior listening exposure to a reverberant room improves open-set intelligibility of high-variability sentences
Author(s) -
Nirmal Kumar Srinivasan,
Pavel Zahorik
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the journal of the acoustical society of america/the journal of the acoustical society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1520-8524
pISSN - 0001-4966
DOI - 10.1121/1.4771978
Subject(s) - binaural recording , reverberation , active listening , intelligibility (philosophy) , room acoustics , acoustics , computer science , adaptation (eye) , speech recognition , psychology , communication , physics , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience
Previous studies have demonstrated that speech understanding in reverberant rooms improves when listeners are given prior exposure to the room. Results from these room-adaptation studies are limited, however, because they were conducted with materials that are not representative of the high acoustic variability observed in speech signals during everyday communication. Here, room adaptation effects were measured using an open-set speech corpus with high lexical and indexical variability and virtual auditory space techniques to simulate binaural listening in rooms. Room adaptation effects of comparable magnitude to previous studies were observed, suggesting general importance for facilitating speech intelligibility in reverberation.