The effect of F0 contour on the intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese for hearing-impaired listeners

Niu, Yadong1,2; Chen, Fei3; Chen, Jing1,2

2019-08

10.1121/1.5119264

JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   影响因子和分区

0001-4966

1520-8524

Dynamic F0 contour plays an important role in recognizing speech. The present work examined the effect of F0 contour on speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners for Mandarin Chinese in quiet, in steady noise, and in two-talker competing speech. The intelligibility of two types of natural speech was measured: single-Tone speech with relatively flat F0 contours and multi-Tone speech with time-varying F0 contours. The speech rate and mean F0 of speech materials were carefully controlled to avoid effects other than F0 contour on the speech intelligibility. Results showed that intelligibility was significantly higher for speech with a flat F0 contour than that with a dynamic F0 contour at a low signal-to-masker ratio in both speech-spectrum noise and two-talker masker.

SCI ; EI ; SSCI

英语

其他

Medicine-Information research grant by Peking University[BMU2018MI004]

Acoustics ; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology

Acoustics ; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology

WOS:000483887400001

ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS

20193207283073

Audition

Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering:461.4 ; Speech:751.5

PHYSICS

Web of Science

1.Peking Univ, Speech & Hearing Res Ctr, Dept Machine Intelligence, Beijing, Peoples R China
2.Peking Univ, Key Lab Machine Percept, Minist Educ, Beijing, Peoples R China
3.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Xueyuan Rd 1088, Shenzhen, Peoples R China

Niu, Yadong,Chen, Fei,Chen, Jing. The effect of F0 contour on the intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese for hearing-impaired listeners[J]. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA,2019,146(2):EL85-EL91.

Niu, Yadong,Chen, Fei,&Chen, Jing.(2019).The effect of F0 contour on the intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese for hearing-impaired listeners.JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA,146(2),EL85-EL91.

Niu, Yadong,et al."The effect of F0 contour on the intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese for hearing-impaired listeners".JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 146.2(2019):EL85-EL91.