Speech intelligibility in cross-dialectal multi-talker babble
Robert A. Fox (Co-investigator)
Ewa Jacewicz (Co-investigator)
Research goals: Studies varying the language of the target speech and the babble masker show that the target is most intelligible when the masker is constructed from a non-native language and target represents exemplars from the listener's native language. Does variation in speaker and listener dialect have a similar effect on speech intelligibility? In this project, central Ohio listeners listen to target sentences spoken by either native Ohio or native North Carolina talker. The sentences are masked by multi-talker babble consisting of speech from either Ohio or North Carolina talkers presented at several babble-to-noise ratios. The same material is also presented to listeners in North Carolina.
Robert A. Fox (Co-investigator)
Ewa Jacewicz (Co-investigator)
Research goals: Studies varying the language of the target speech and the babble masker show that the target is most intelligible when the masker is constructed from a non-native language and target represents exemplars from the listener's native language. Does variation in speaker and listener dialect have a similar effect on speech intelligibility? In this project, central Ohio listeners listen to target sentences spoken by either native Ohio or native North Carolina talker. The sentences are masked by multi-talker babble consisting of speech from either Ohio or North Carolina talkers presented at several babble-to-noise ratios. The same material is also presented to listeners in North Carolina.