Understanding Periodically Interrupted Mandarin Speech

Liu, Jing1; Tong, Rosanna H. N.2; Chen, Fei3

10.21437/Interspeech.2016-176

2016

19909772

17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2016), VOLS 1-5

08-12-September-2016

1687-1691

San Francisco, CA, United states

C/O EMMANUELLE FOXONET, 4 RUE DES FAUVETTES, LIEU DIT LOUS TOURILS, BAIXAS, F-66390, FRANCE

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC

This study investigated the effects of two parameters (i.e., interruption rate, and duty cycle of interruption) on the perception of periodically interrupted Mandarin speech. Normal-hearing listeners were instructed to identify consonant/vowel/tone/word from isolated Mandarin words and recognize Mandarin sentences when they were temporally interrupted by square wave. Results showed that consistent with earlier findings obtained with English speech, interruption with a large rate or duty cycle favored the perception of periodically interrupted Mandarin speech. In. addition, for isolated Mandarin word, the perception of vowel or tone was less affected by periodical interruption than that of consonant, and under periodical interruption the perception of consonant could largely account for the recognition of Mandarin word. For Mandarin sentence, the tonal characteristics and the simpler syllable structure in Mandarin might facilitate spectral-temporal integration of the target words, which contributed to a sentence intelligibility advantage of Mandarin over English under interrupted conditions.

Speech intelligibility periodical interruption

第一 ; 通讯

英语

CPCI-S ; ISSHP ; CPCI-SSH ; EI

National Natural Science Foundation of China[61571213]

Acoustics ; Computer Science ; Engineering ; Linguistics

Acoustics ; Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Linguistics

WOS:000409394401035

20164603003929

Audition ; Linguistics ; Speech communication ; Speech processing

Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering:461.4 ; Speech:751.5

Web of Science

1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Biol, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
2.Univ Hong Kong, Div Speech & Hearing Sci, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
3.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China

Liu, Jing,Tong, Rosanna H. N.,Chen, Fei. Understanding Periodically Interrupted Mandarin Speech[C]. C/O EMMANUELLE FOXONET, 4 RUE DES FAUVETTES, LIEU DIT LOUS TOURILS, BAIXAS, F-66390, FRANCE:ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC,2016:1687-1691.