Ellis L, Reynolds L, Fucci D, Benjamin B
Special Education Services, University of Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1996 Dec;83(3 Pt 1):771-5. doi: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.3.771.
Effects of gender on listeners' judgments of intelligibility were investigated. Subjects (15 women; 15 men) provided magnitude-estimation scaling responses and over-all impression of the intelligibility of a male and female speaker's comparable versions of audiotaped speech samples varying systematically in terms of the number of phonemes produced correctly. There was no significant difference between male and female subjects' magnitude-estimation scaling responses; however, their over-all impressions of the intelligibility of the speakers tended to differ. Women indicated that the male speaker was more understandable, and men indicated that the female speaker was more understandable. Magnitude-estimation scaling may provide an objective means for evaluating a speaker's intelligibility. It appears to transcend gender-biases associated with judgments of speech intelligibility.
研究了性别对听众可懂度判断的影响。受试者（15名女性；15名男性）对男性和女性说话者可比版本的录音语音样本的可懂度进行了量级估计标度反应和总体印象评价，这些样本在正确发出的音素数量上有系统变化。男性和女性受试者的量级估计标度反应没有显著差异；然而，他们对说话者可懂度的总体印象往往不同。女性表示男性说话者更易懂，而男性表示女性说话者更易懂。量级估计标度可能为评估说话者的可懂度提供一种客观方法。它似乎超越了与语音可懂度判断相关的性别偏见。
