Maturation of Speech-in-Speech Recognition for Whispered and Voiced Speech

Autor/inn/en	Buss, Emily; Miller, Margaret K.; Leibold, Lori J.
Titel	Maturation of Speech-in-Speech Recognition for Whispered and Voiced Speech
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65 (2022) 8, S.3117-3128 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Buss, Emily) ORCID (Miller, Margaret K.) ORCID (Leibold, Lori J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Auditory Perception; Speech Communication; Word Recognition; Acoustics; Young Children; Adults; Age Differences; Cues; Performance; Listening Skills; Auditory Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Worterkennung; Frühe Kindheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Stichwort; Achievement; Leistung; Auditive Stimulation
Abstract	Purpose: Some speech recognition data suggest that children rely less on voice pitch and harmonicity to support auditory scene analysis than adults. Two experiments evaluated development of speech-in-speech recognition using voiced speech and whispered speech, which lacks the harmonic structure of voiced speech. Method: Listeners were 5- to 7-year-olds and adults with normal hearing. Targets were monosyllabic words organized into three-word sets that differ in vowel content. Maskers were two-talker or one-talker streams of speech. Targets and maskers were recorded by different female talkers in both voiced and whispered speaking styles. For each masker, speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured in all four combinations of target and masker speech, including matched and mismatched speaking styles for the target and masker. Results: Children performed more poorly than adults overall. For the two-talker masker, this age effect was smaller for the whispered target and masker than for the other three conditions. Children's SRTs in this condition were predominantly positive, suggesting that they may have relied on a wholistic listening strategy rather than segregating the target from the masker. For the one-talker masker, age effects were consistent across the four conditions. Reduced informational masking for the one-talker masker could be responsible for differences in age effects for the two maskers. A benefit of mismatching the target and masker speaking style was observed for both target styles in the two-talker masker and for the voiced targets in the one-talker masker. Conclusions: These results provide no compelling evidence that young school-age children and adults are differentially sensitive to the cues present in voiced and whispered speech. Both groups benefit from mismatches in speaking style under some conditions. These benefits could be due to a combination of reduced perceptual similarity, harmonic cancelation, and differences in energetic masking. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01