Factors Affecting the Intelligibility of Sine-wave Speech

Chen, Fei1; Fogerty, Daniel2; Int Speech Commun Assoc

10.21437/Interspeech.2016-4

2016

19909772

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

08-12-September-2016

1692-1695

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

Studies on sine-wave speech (SWS) perception suggest that formants contain sufficient information for sentence intelligibility. This study further investigated the effects of amplitude modulation, number of sine-waves, and vowel resonance in SWS recognition. Results showed that Mandarin sentences synthesized using frequency trajectories of the first two formants were highly intelligible with additional contributions from formant amplitude modulation. However, amplitude modulation significantly contributed to intelligibility when only the vowels were preserved. The present work demonstrates that the intelligibility of Mandarin SWS can be largely attributed to the frequency transition of the first two formants and is susceptible to temporal interruption.

Speech intelligibility sine-wave speech

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:000409394401036

20164603003930

Amplitude modulation ; Linguistics ; Slow wave structures ; Speech communication ; Speech processing

Waveguides:714.3 ; Speech:751.5

Web of Science

1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
2.Univ South Carolina, Dept Commun Sci & Disorders, Columbia, SC USA

Chen, Fei,Fogerty, Daniel,Int Speech Commun Assoc. Factors Affecting the Intelligibility of Sine-wave Speech[C]. C/O EMMANUELLE FOXONET, 4 RUE DES FAUVETTES, LIEU DIT LOUS TOURILS, BAIXAS, F-66390, FRANCE:ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC,2016:1692-1695.