A FREQUENCY IMPORTANCE FUNCTION FOR CONTINUOUS DISCOURSE
A FREQUENCY IMPORTANCE FUNCTION FOR CONTINUOUS DISCOURSE
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DOI:
10.1121/1.394633
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发表时间:
1987-04-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
SHERBECOE, RL
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作者:
STUDEBAKER, GA;PAVLOVIC, CV;SHERBECOE, RL
Normal hearing subjects estimated the intelligibility of continuous discourse (CD) passages spoken by three talkers (two male and one female) under 135 conditions of filtering and signal-to-noise ratio. The relationship between the intelligibility of CD and the articulation index (the transfer function) was different from any found in ANSI S3.5-1969. Also, the lower frequencies were found to be relatively more important for the intelligibility of CD than for identification of nonsense syllables and other types of speech for which data are available except for synthetic sentences [Speaks, J. Speech Hear. Res. 10, 289-298 (1967)]. The frequency which divides the auditory spectrum into two equally important halves (the crossover frequency) was found to be about 0.5 oct lower for the CD used in this study than the crossover frequency for male talkers of nonsense syllables found in ANSI S3.5-1969 and about 0.7 oct lower than the one for combined male and female talkers of nonsense syllables reported by French and Steinberg [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 19, 90-119 (1947)].