Strength of target source segregation cues affects the outcome of speech-on-speech masking experiments

Author:

Roverud Elin1,Villard Sarah1,Kidd Gerald1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University , Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA

Abstract

In speech-on-speech listening experiments, some means for designating which talker is the “target” must be provided for the listener to perform better than chance. However, the relative strength of the segregation variables designating the target could affect the results of the experiment. Here, we examine the interaction of two source segregation variables—spatial separation and talker gender differences—and demonstrate that the relative strengths of these cues may affect the interpretation of the results. Participants listened to sentence pairs spoken by different-gender target and masker talkers, presented naturally or vocoded (degrading gender cues), either colocated or spatially separated. Target and masker words were temporally interleaved to eliminate energetic masking in either an every-other-word or randomized order of presentation. Results showed that the order of interleaving had no effect on recall performance. For natural speech with strong talker gender cues, spatial separation of sources yielded no improvement in performance. For vocoded speech with degraded talker gender cues, performance improved significantly with spatial separation of sources. These findings reveal that listeners may shift among target source segregation cues contingent on cue viability. Finally, performance was poor when the target was designated after stimulus presentation, indicating strong reliance on the cues.

Funder

NIH NIDCD

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Subject

Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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