Measuring the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese with an Bayesian adaptive procedure

Yufan Du; Yi Shen; Hongying Yang; Xihong Wu; Jing Chen

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825

Measuring the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese with an Bayesian adaptive procedure

Yufan Du, Yi Shen, Hongying Yang, Xihong Wu, Jing Chen

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Abstract

A speech intelligibility index (SII) based band importance function (BIF) for Mandarin monosyllabic words spoken by a female speaker was derived with an adaptive procedure in this work. The adaptive procedure, namely the quick-band-importance-function (qBIF) procedure, optimized the stimulus on each trial according listeners' performance on proceeding trials in an iterative fashion. This method greatly improved the efficiency of data collection. Test-retest experiments were conducted and confirmed the reliability of this adaptive procedure at a group level. The BIF derived in this work showed generally consistence with the BIF derived with the traditional paradigm with noticeable differences at certain frequencies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	961-965
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Volume	2018-September
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018 - Hyderabad, India Duration: 2 Sept 2018 → 6 Sept 2018

Keywords

Band importance function
Mandarin Chinese
Speech intelligibility index
The qBIF procedure

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Measuring the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese with an Bayesian adaptive procedure

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