Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments

Voice-gender difference and spatial separation between talkers are important cues for speech segregation in multi-talker listening environments. The goal of this study was to investigate the interactions of these two cues to explore how they influence masking release in normal hearing listeners. Spe...

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Autores principales: Oh, Yonghee, Bridges, Sarah E., Schoenfeld, Hannah, Layne, Allison O., Eddins, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Acoustical Society of America 2021
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Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8547139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34713273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0005831
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author Oh, Yonghee
Bridges, Sarah E.
Schoenfeld, Hannah
Layne, Allison O.
Eddins, David
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description Voice-gender difference and spatial separation between talkers are important cues for speech segregation in multi-talker listening environments. The goal of this study was to investigate the interactions of these two cues to explore how they influence masking release in normal hearing listeners. Speech recognition thresholds in competing speech were measured, and masking release benefits by either voice-gender difference or spatial separation cues were calculated. Results revealed that the masking releases by those two cues are inversely related as a function of spatial separation, with a gender-specific difference of transition between the two types of masking release.
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spelling pubmed-85471392021-10-26 Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments Oh, Yonghee Bridges, Sarah E. Schoenfeld, Hannah Layne, Allison O. Eddins, David JASA Express Lett Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Voice-gender difference and spatial separation between talkers are important cues for speech segregation in multi-talker listening environments. The goal of this study was to investigate the interactions of these two cues to explore how they influence masking release in normal hearing listeners. Speech recognition thresholds in competing speech were measured, and masking release benefits by either voice-gender difference or spatial separation cues were calculated. Results revealed that the masking releases by those two cues are inversely related as a function of spatial separation, with a gender-specific difference of transition between the two types of masking release. Acoustical Society of America 2021-08 2021-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8547139/ /pubmed/34713273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0005831 Text en © 2021 Author(s). 2691-1191/2021/1(8)/084404/7 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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title Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments
title_full Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments
title_fullStr Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments
title_full_unstemmed Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments
title_short Interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments
title_sort interaction between voice-gender difference and spatial separation in release from masking in multi-talker listening environments
topic Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8547139/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0005831
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