Al's Experiment ("(Jont Allen)" )

Subject: Al's Experiment
From:    "(Jont Allen)"  <jba(at)SPECTRUM.RESEARCH.ATT.COM>
Date:    Tue, 22 Sep 1992 18:32:26 EDT

When listening to speech, one may easily assign a loudness to the speech.
When two speakers, or a speaker in noise, is listened to, one may also
assign loudness to the noise, or to one of the speakers. However it is
difficult to assign loudness to the complex (i.e. the speech + noise).
Is this not a form of streaming, the fact that the speech is fused as
a whole? Are the three tones, at the formants, fused in the same manner?
Jont Allen