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Conference Paper: Contributions of the high-RMS-level segments to the intelligibility of mandarin sentences
Title | Contributions of the high-RMS-level segments to the intelligibility of mandarin sentences |
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Keywords | intelligibility prediction Speech perception |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The Journal's web site is located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000002 |
Citation | The 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2013), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 26-31 May 2013. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013, p. 7810-7815 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Recent evidence suggests that segments carrying more spectral changes [e.g., consonant-vowel boundaries in the middle root-mean-square (RMS) level segments] are important to predict the intelligibility of English sentences. Nevertheless, considering the difference between Mandarin and English languages, it is hypothesized that the high-RMS-level segments might provide more perceptual information to the intelligibility of Mandarin speech. Two studies were conducted in this paper to assess the relative contributions of the high-RMS-level segments to the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences, i.e., speech perception and intelligibility prediction. Results show that 1) Mandarin sentences containing the high-RMS-level (i.e., above the overall RMS level of the whole utterance) segments are more intelligible (i.e., recognition rate up to 91%) than those with the middle-RMS-level segments; and 2) the high-RMS-level segments, which carry more vowel and tonal information, contribute more in predicting the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences in noise. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/183949 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chen, FF | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, LLN | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-18T04:31:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-18T04:31:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2013), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 26-31 May 2013. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013, p. 7810-7815 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781479903566 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-6149 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/183949 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Recent evidence suggests that segments carrying more spectral changes [e.g., consonant-vowel boundaries in the middle root-mean-square (RMS) level segments] are important to predict the intelligibility of English sentences. Nevertheless, considering the difference between Mandarin and English languages, it is hypothesized that the high-RMS-level segments might provide more perceptual information to the intelligibility of Mandarin speech. Two studies were conducted in this paper to assess the relative contributions of the high-RMS-level segments to the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences, i.e., speech perception and intelligibility prediction. Results show that 1) Mandarin sentences containing the high-RMS-level (i.e., above the overall RMS level of the whole utterance) segments are more intelligible (i.e., recognition rate up to 91%) than those with the middle-RMS-level segments; and 2) the high-RMS-level segments, which carry more vowel and tonal information, contribute more in predicting the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences in noise. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The Journal's web site is located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000002 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings | en_US |
dc.subject | intelligibility prediction | - |
dc.subject | Speech perception | - |
dc.title | Contributions of the high-RMS-level segments to the intelligibility of mandarin sentences | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Chen, FF: feichen1@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Wong, LLN: llnwong@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Chen, FF=rp01593 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Wong, LLN=rp00975 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639184 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84890517518 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 214653 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 7810 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 7815 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1520-6149 | - |