The effect of voice cuing on releasing Chinese speech from informational masking

Yang, Zhigang; Chen, Jing; Huang, Qiang; Wu, Xihong; Wu, Yanhong; Schneider, Bruce A.; Li, Liang

doi:10.1016/j.specom.2007.05.005

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“…Speech stimuli were Chinese nonsense sentences, which are syntactically correct but not semantically meaningful (Yang et al, 2007). For example, the English translation of a Chinese nonsense sentence is "One appreciation could retire his ocean" (keywords are in italic).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The sentence frame cannot provide any contextual support for recognizing the keywords. The development of the Chinese nonsense sentences was described elsewhere (Yang et al, 2007).…”

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“…These cues include both viewing a speaker's movements of the speech articulators (simultaneous lipreading) (Summerfield, 1979;Rosenblum et al, 1996;Grant and Seitz, 2000;Rudmann et al, 2003;Helfer and Freyman, 2005) and prior knowledge about part of the target-sentence content (i.e., temporally pre-presented content prime) (Freyman et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2007).…”

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“…before the co-presentation of the target and the masker (Freyman et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2007). Since the target sentences used in this line of studies are meaningless ("nonsense"), listeners receive no contextual support for recognizing the last keyword.…”

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“…Previous studies have shown that the recognition of target speech under either noise-masking or speech-masking conditions can be improved by either simultaneously presenting lipreading cues (e.g., Helfer and Freyman, 2005) or temporally prepresenting verbal content cues (e.g., Freyman et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2007), even though the unmasking effect is larger under the speech masking condition than that under the noise-masking condition. Thus, either of the two types of unmasking cues is not completely specific for releasing target speech from informational masking.…”

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Temporally pre-presented lipreading cues release speech from informational masking

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et al. 2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Listeners can use temporally pre-presented content cues and concurrently presented lipreading cues to improve speech recognition under masking conditions. This study investigated whether temporally pre-presented lipreading cues also unmask speech. In a test trial, before the target sentence was co-presented with the masker, either target-matched (priming) lipreading video or static face (priming-control) video was presented in quiet. Participants’ target-recognition performance was improved by a shift from the priming-control condition to the priming condition when the masker was speech but not noise. This release from informational masking suggests a combined effect of working memory and cross-modal integration on selective attention to target speech.

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“…The sentence frame cannot provide any contextual support for recognizing the keywords. The development of the Chinese nonsense sentences was described elsewhere (Yang et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Temporally pre-presented lipreading cues release speech from informational masking

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Voice-associated static face image releases speech from informational masking

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PsyCh Journal

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In noisy, multipeople talking environments such as a cocktail party, listeners can use various perceptual and/or cognitive cues to improve recognition of target speech against masking, particularly informational masking. Previous studies have shown that temporally prepresented voice cues (voice primes) improve recognition of target speech against speech masking but not noise masking. This study investigated whether static face image primes that have become target-voice associated (i.e., facial images linked through associative learning with voices reciting the target speech) can be used by listeners to unmask speech. The results showed that in 32 normal-hearing younger adults, temporally prepresenting a voice-priming sentence with the same voice reciting the target sentence significantly improved the recognition of target speech that was masked by irrelevant two-talker speech. When a person's face photograph image became associated with the voice reciting the target speech by learning, temporally prepresenting the target-voice-associated face image significantly improved recognition of target speech against speech masking, particularly for the last two keywords in the target sentence. Moreover, speech-recognition performance under the voice-priming condition was significantly correlated to that under the face-priming condition. The results suggest that learned facial information on talker identity plays an important role in identifying the target-talker's voice and facilitating selective attention to the target-speech stream against the masking-speech stream.

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