In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 117, No. 4_Supplement ( 2005-04-01), p. 2537-2538
Abstract:
Physical or perceived spatial signal/masker separation unmasks speech more when maskers are informational than when energetic. However, it is unclear how beneficial the separations are to cochlear-implant listeners, because signal transductions applied in cochlear implant degrade signals spectrally, and spectrally degraded speech is more vulnerable to maskers. Here, spectrums of both target speech (nonsense sentence) and masker (steady speech-spectrum noise, speech modulated speech C-spectrum noise, or speech) were filtered into 15 frequency bands. For both target and masking speech, the center-frequency pure tone of each band was modulated by the extracted envelope from the band. The target speech was composed by the sum of the 8 odd-band tones, and the masker was either same-band (with the 8 odd-band tones) or different-band (with the 7 even-band tones). The results show that physical but not perceived spatial separation unmasked target speech in naive normal-hearing listeners. However, following pre-presentations of both degraded and normal correspondent speech to listeners for a period of time or the introduction of phase information into modulated tones, perceived spatial separation reduced the influence of different-band speech masking but not that of same-band speech masking. These results are useful for improving cochlear-implant programs at both behavioral and technical levels.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0001-4966
,
1520-8524
Language:
English
Publisher:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publication Date:
2005
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1461063-2
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