Re: effects of replay on intelligibility

[Tom Brennan <g_brennantg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd be very careful about applying results from synthetic speech to anything
else.  As a long time user of synthetic speech I can tell you that systems such
as lpc produce problems specific to the voice chip being used and even for long
time users it is sometimes necessary to "replay" what has been heard.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Fri, 20 May 2011, Antonio Miller wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:51:40 -0400
> From: Antonio Miller <antonio.miller@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: effects of replay on intelligibility
>
> Here is one lead that used synthetic speech...
>
> "repeated listening experiences resulted in significantly improved
> scores for both novel and repeated vocabulary [...] repeated
> vocabulary was more intelligible than novel vocabulary. The results
> provide evidence that repeated listening experiences result in
> improved performance for both children and adults. Children and adults
> not only remember and recognize words that they have heard previously
> (repeated vocabulary), but repeated exposure to synthesized speech
> also improves performance on words heard for the first time (novel
> vocabulary)."
>
> http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07434619412331276870
>
> -Tony
>
> --
> Tony Miller | Motorola Solutions | Acoustic Technology Center
>
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Gaston Hilkhuysen
> <ghilkhuysen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> >
> >
> > In most speech intelligibility studies that use open response sets, subjects
> > listen only once to a particular stimulus. During daily communication, the
> > utterance and the concurrent noise are rarely fixed hence presenting a
> > stimulus only once seems a highly relevant approach to speech perception.
> > However in forensic applications one tends to have recordings of the
> > distorted speech, hence the possibility for replay. I am wondering whether
> > anyone ever looked at the effects of replay on speech intelligibility. Does
> > it help to replay the same speech fragment over and over again? If yes, when
> > does this effect saturate? Are listeners able to judge when additional
> > replay no longer improves intelligibility, or do they merely become more
> > convinced in their (possibly erroneous) responses?
> >
> >
> >
> > Your ideas, remarks and in particular references are warmly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> >
> >
> > -Gaston.
> >
> >
>