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Calibration of consonant perception to room reverberation

View ORCID ProfileEleni Vlahou, Kanako Ueno, View ORCID ProfileBarbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, View ORCID ProfileNorbert Kopčo
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.01.277590
Eleni Vlahou
1Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
2Hearing Research Center and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
3Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Greece
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Kanako Ueno
4School of Science and Technology, Meiji University
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Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
5Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Norbert Kopčo
1Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
2Hearing Research Center and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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Purpose We examined how consonant perception is affected by a preceding speech carrier simulated in the same or a different room, for a broad range of consonants. Carrier room, carrier length, and carrier length/target room uncertainty were manipulated. A phonetic feature analysis tested which phonetic categories are most influenced by the acoustic context of the carrier.

Method Two experiments were performed, each with 9 participants. Targets consisted of vowel-consonant (VC) syllables presented in one of 2 strongly reverberant rooms, preceded by a VC carrier presented either in the same room, a different reverberant room, or an anechoic room. In Experiment 1 the carrier length and the target room randomly varied from trial to trial while in Experiment 2 they were fixed within blocks of trials.

Results Compared to the no-carrier condition, a consistent carrier provided only a small advantage for consonant perception, whereas inconsistent carriers disrupted performance significantly. For a different-room carrier, carrier length had an effect; performance dropped significantly in the 2-VC compared to the 4-VC carrier length. The only effect of carrier uncertainty was an overall drop in performance. Phonetic analysis showed that an inconsistent carrier significantly degraded identification of the manner of articulation, especially for stop consonants, and, in one of the rooms, also of voicing.

Conclusions Calibration of consonant perception to strong reverberation is exhibited through disruptions in perception when the room is switched. The strength of calibration varies across different consonants and phonetic features, as well as across rooms and durations of exposure to a given room.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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Calibration of consonant perception to room reverberation
Eleni Vlahou, Kanako Ueno, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Norbert Kopčo
bioRxiv 2020.09.01.277590; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.01.277590
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Calibration of consonant perception to room reverberation
Eleni Vlahou, Kanako Ueno, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Norbert Kopčo
bioRxiv 2020.09.01.277590; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.01.277590

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