The impact of reverberant self-masking and overlap-masking effects on speech intelligibility by cochlear implant listeners (L)
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2011-05-05Author
Kokkinakis, Kostas
Loizou, Philipos C.
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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The purpose of this study is to determine the relative impact of reverberant self-masking and overlap-masking effects on speech intelligibility by cochlear implant listeners. Sentences were presented in two conditions wherein reverberant consonant segments were replaced with clean consonants, and in another condition wherein reverberant vowel segments were replaced with clean vowels. The underlying assumption is that self-masking effects would dominate in the first condition, whereas overlap-masking effects would dominate in the second condition. Results indicated that the degradation of speech intelligibility in reverberant conditions is caused primarily by self-masking effects that give rise to flattened formant transitions.
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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3614539.
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Kokkinakis, Kostas & Loizou, Philipos C. "The impact of reverberant self-masking and overlap-masking effects on speech intelligibility by cochlear implant listeners (L)." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 1099 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3614539.
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