School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2010 Jul;128(1):384-8. doi: 10.1121/1.3397514.
A perception experiment was conducted to evaluate the proposal that speaker gender identification underlies the ability to estimate relative F0 height from multispeaker speech without cues typically present for speaker normalization. The Mandarin syllable sa was processed to generate fricative, vowel, and fricative-vowel stimuli. Both Mandarin and English listeners identified gender above chance from vowel and fricative-vowel stimuli. Fricative-vowel stimuli were identified more accurately than vowel stimuli, which were identified more accurately than fricative stimuli. Accuracy was comparable between Mandarin and English listeners, but reaction time showed distinct patterns. The perceptual evidence supports the idea that gender identification contributes to relative F0 height estimation.
进行了一项感知实验，以评估以下假设：在没有典型的说话人归一化提示的情况下，从多说话人语音中估计相对基频高度的能力取决于说话人性别识别。对汉语音节 sa 进行处理，生成摩擦音、元音和摩擦音-元音刺激。汉语和英语听众都能从元音和摩擦音-元音刺激中识别出性别，高于随机水平。摩擦音-元音刺激的识别准确率高于元音刺激，元音刺激的识别准确率高于摩擦音刺激。汉语和英语听众的准确率相当，但反应时间表现出明显的模式。感知证据支持这样一种观点，即性别识别有助于相对基频高度估计。
