Does Language Matter When Using a Graphical Method for Calculating the Speech Intelligibility Index?

Jin, In-Ki; Kates, James M.; Arehart, Kathryn H.

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“…The SII model has been adopted to predict speech intelligibility for other languages (e.g., (Hochmuth et al, 2015). A number of researchers have suggested the necessity of developing language-specific SII models to better account for the differences in acoustic properties and phoneme distribution across languages (e.g., Wong et al, 2007a;Jin et al, 2017). Consequently, language-specific SII models have been developed for several languages (Wong et al, 2007a;Lee and Kim, 2012;Kuo, 2013;Chen et al, 2016;Jin et al, 2016;Narne et al, 2016).…”

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The effect of speech material on the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Speech material influences the relative contributions of different frequency regions to intelligibility for English. In the current study, whether a similar effect of speech material is present for Mandarin Chinese was investigated. Speech recognition was measured using three speech materials in Mandarin, including disyllabic words, nonsense sentences, and meaningful sentences. These materials differed from one another in terms of the amount of contextual information and word frequency. The band importance function (BIF), as defined under the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) framework, was used to quantify the contributions across frequency regions. The BIFs for the three speech materials were estimated from 16 adults who were native speakers of Mandarin. A Bayesian adaptive procedure was used to efficiently estimate the octave-frequency BIFs for the three materials for each listener. As the amount of contextual information increased, low-frequency bands (e.g., 250 and 500 Hz) became more important for speech recognition, consistent with English. The BIF was flatter for Mandarin than for comparable English speech materials. Introducing the language-and material-specific BIFs to the SII model led to improved predictions of Mandarin speech-recognition performance. Results suggested the necessity of developing material-specific BIFs for Mandarin. V

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The effect of speech material on the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Does Language Matter When Using a Graphical Method for Calculating the Speech Intelligibility Index?

Abstract: A graphical SII helps patients easily understand their weighted audibility for unaided and aided conditions; thus, it is a useful counseling tool in the clinic. The most accurate graphical SII's will, however, be based on a patient's spoken language.

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The effect of speech material on the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese

The effect of speech material on the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese

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