Bashford James A, Warren Richard M, Lenz Peter W
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
J Acoust Soc Am. 2017 Sep;142(3):EL299. doi: 10.1121/1.5002735.
Speech intelligibility normally declines at high intensities, but this "rollover" effect decreases when steep filtering reduces sentences to an array of rectangular subcritical bands. The present study found that interpolating low intensity noise between the speech bands further decreases rollover, supporting the hypothesis that rollover is normally reduced by lateral inhibition of input from rate-saturated auditory nerve fibers. With noise also present within the speech (a 15 dB signal-to-noise ratio) an array of 6%-wide speech bands with interpolated noise was found to be 9% more intelligible at 100 dB than a spectrally continuous band of speech covering the same frequency range.
语音清晰度通常在高强度时会下降,但当陡峭滤波将句子简化为一系列矩形亚临界带时,这种“翻转”效应会减弱。本研究发现,在语音频段之间插入低强度噪声会进一步降低翻转,这支持了如下假设:翻转通常是通过对速率饱和的听神经纤维输入进行侧向抑制来降低的。当语音中也存在噪声(信噪比为15dB)时,发现一系列宽度为6%且带有插入噪声的语音频段在100dB时的可懂度比覆盖相同频率范围的频谱连续语音频段高9%。