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The Effects of Uncertainty in Level on Speech-on-Speech Masking.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Individual differences in speech-on-speech masking are correlated with cognitive and visual task performance.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Simultaneous relative cue reliance in speech-on-speech masking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Effect of relative masker levels on speech recognition in two-talker maskers with varying perceptual similarity to the target speech.JASA express letters · 2023Article
- Effects of presentation level on speech-on-speech masking by voice-gender difference and spatial separation between talkers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Judging the Number and Gender of Talkers Present in an Auditory Scene Aided by Acoustic Beamforming.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Identification of speech from a "target" talker was measured in a speech-on-speech masking task with two simultaneous "masker" talkers. The overall level of each talker was either fixed or randomized throughout each stimulus presentation to investigate the effectiveness of level as a cue for segregating competing talkers and attending to the target. Experimental manipulations included varying the level difference between talkers and imposing three types of target level uncertainty: 1) fixed target level across trials, 2) random target level across trials, or 3) random target levels on a word-by-word basis within a trial. When the target level was predictable performance was better than corresponding conditions when the target level was uncertain. Masker confusions were consistent with a high degree of informational masking (IM). Furthermore, evidence was found for "tuning" in level and a level "release" from IM. These findings suggest that conforming to listener expectation about relative level, in addition to cues signaling talker identity, facilitates segregation of, and maintaining focus of attention on, a specific talker in multiple-talker communication situations.
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