Subject: Speech intelligibility and spatial information From: Al Bregman <al.bregman(at)MCGILL.CA> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:28:43 -0400Dear list, Does anybody know the answer to this? Suppose a person (P) is talking in a background of other speech sounds. Does anybody know of data that tell whether the intelligibility of P's speech increases when the listener is presented with visual information which gives the exact location of P in space? There is a computer model by Nakagawa, Okuno, and Kitano (AAAI-99) that makes this assumption, but are there any data on human listeners? I am asking only about spatial information supplied by vision, not spatial information derived by the auditory system from the signal itself. Al ------------------------------------------------- Albert S. Bregman, Emeritus Professor Dept of Psychology, McGill University 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1 Office: Phone: +1 (514) 398-6103 Fax: +1 (514) 398-4896 Home phone & Fax: +1 (514) 484-2592 Email: al.bregman(at)mcgill.ca -------------------------------------------------