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Mandarin tone perception in multiple-talker babbles and speech-shaped noise

Author(s) -

Xianhui Wang,

Li Xu

Publication year - 2020

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 - 10.1121/10.0001002

Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , tone (literature) , speech recognition , noise (video) , audiology , mathematics , acoustics , speech perception , perception , psychology , computer science , physics , medicine , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , neuroscience , image (mathematics)

Lexical tone recognition in multiple-talker babbles (N = 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, or 12) and in speech-shaped noise at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs = -18 to -6 dB) were tested in 30 normal-hearing native Mandarin-speaking listeners. Results showed that tone perception was robust to noise. The performance curve as a function of N was non-monotonic. The breakpoint at which the performance plateaued was N = 8 for all SNRs tested with a slight improvement at N > 8 at -6 and -9 dB SNR.

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