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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhang, Jin
• Xie, Lingli
• Li, Yongjun
• Chatterjee, Monita
• Ding, Nai
• Bolhuis, Johan J.

Titel

How noise and language proficiency influence speech recognition by individual non-native listeners

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2014-11, Vol.9 (11), p.e113386-e113386

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study investigated how speech recognition in noise is affected by language proficiency for individual non-native speakers. The recognition of English and Chinese sentences was measured as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in sixty native Chinese speakers who never lived in an English-speaking environment. The recognition score for speech in quiet (which varied from 15%-92%) was found to be uncorrelated with speech recognition threshold (SRTQ/2), i.e. the SNR at which the recognition score drops to 50% of the recognition score in quiet. This result demonstrates separable contributions of language proficiency and auditory processing to speech recognition in noise.