ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2018
Combining degradations: The effect of background noise on intelligibility of disordered speech.
Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Crowdsourced Perceptual Ratings of Voice Quality in People With Parkinson's Disease Before and After Intensive Voice and Articulation Therapies: Secondary Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Trial
- Background noise inhibits listeners' use of contextual cues for dysarthric speech.JASA express letters · 2026Article
- Bilingual Perception of Dysarthric Speech.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Communication in Complex Situations: The Combined Influence of Dysarthria and Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Speech Perception in Everyday Noisy Environments.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- The Application of Time-Frequency Masking To Improve Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech in Background Noise.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Intelligibility Across a Reading Passage: The Effect of Dysarthria and Cued Speaking Styles.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2022Article
- Investigating Acoustic Correlates of Intelligibility Gains and Losses During Slowed Speech: A Hybridization Approach.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2021Article
- Are there sex effects for speech intelligibility in American English? Examining the influence of talker, listener, and methodology.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2019Article
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Abstract
The effect of background noise on intelligibility of disordered speech was assessed. Speech-shaped noise was mixed with neurologically healthy (control) and disordered (dysarthric) speech at a series of signal-to-noise ratios. In addition, bandpass filtered control and dysarthric speech conditions were assessed to determine the effect of noise on both naturally and artificially degraded speech. While significant effects of both the amount of noise and the type of speech were revealed, no interaction between the two factors was observed, in either the broadband or filtered testing conditions. Thus, it appears that there is no multiplicative effect of the presence of background noise on intelligibility of disordered speech relative to control speech. That is, the decrease in intelligibility due to increasing levels of noise is similar for both types of speech, and both types of testing conditions, and the function for dysarthric speech is simply shifted downward due to the inherent source degradations of the speech itself. Last, large-scale online crowdsourcing via Amazon Mechanical Turk was utilized to collect data for the current study. Findings and implications for this data and data collection approach are discussed.
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