How Noise and Language Proficiency Influence Speech Recognition by Individual Non-Native Listeners

This study investigated how speech recognition in noise is affected by language proficiency for individual non-native speakers. The recognition of English and Chinese sentences was measured as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in sixty native Chinese speakers who never lived in an Englis...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jin, Xie, Lingli, Li, Yongjun, Chatterjee, Monita, Ding, Nai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4237440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25409435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113386
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author Zhang, Jin
Xie, Lingli
Li, Yongjun
Chatterjee, Monita
Ding, Nai
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description This study investigated how speech recognition in noise is affected by language proficiency for individual non-native speakers. The recognition of English and Chinese sentences was measured as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in sixty native Chinese speakers who never lived in an English-speaking environment. The recognition score for speech in quiet (which varied from 15%–92%) was found to be uncorrelated with speech recognition threshold (SRT(Q) (/2)), i.e. the SNR at which the recognition score drops to 50% of the recognition score in quiet. This result demonstrates separable contributions of language proficiency and auditory processing to speech recognition in noise.
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spelling pubmed-42374402014-11-21 How Noise and Language Proficiency Influence Speech Recognition by Individual Non-Native Listeners Zhang, Jin Xie, Lingli Li, Yongjun Chatterjee, Monita Ding, Nai PLoS One Research Article This study investigated how speech recognition in noise is affected by language proficiency for individual non-native speakers. The recognition of English and Chinese sentences was measured as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in sixty native Chinese speakers who never lived in an English-speaking environment. The recognition score for speech in quiet (which varied from 15%–92%) was found to be uncorrelated with speech recognition threshold (SRT(Q) (/2)), i.e. the SNR at which the recognition score drops to 50% of the recognition score in quiet. This result demonstrates separable contributions of language proficiency and auditory processing to speech recognition in noise. Public Library of Science 2014-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4237440/ /pubmed/25409435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113386 Text en © 2014 Zhang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4237440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25409435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113386
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