ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2020
Can background noise increase the informational masking in a speech mixture?
Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Modulation statistics allow robust prediction of speech recognition accuracy across many words, voices, and natural background sounds.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Access to "speech glimpses" in multitalker mixtures afforded by non-linear hearing-aid gain with fast-acting compression.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Effects of entropy in real-world noise on speech perception in listeners with normal hearing and hearing lossa).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Defining functional spatial boundaries using a spatial release from masking task.JASA express letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study tested the hypothesis that adding noise to a speech mixture may cause both energetic masking by obscuring parts of the target message and informational masking by impeding the segregation of competing voices. The stimulus was the combination of two talkers-one target and one masker-presented either in quiet or in noise. Target intelligibility was measured in this mixture and for conditions in which the speech was "glimpsed" in order to quantify the energetic masking present. The results suggested that the addition of background noise exacerbated informational masking, primarily by increasing the sparseness of the speech.
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