TY - GEN
T1 - The role of F0 variation in the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences
AU - Patel, Aniruddh D.
AU - Xu, Yi
AU - Wang, Bei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This study tested the importance of F0 variation for tone language comprehension. The intelligibility of Mandarin sentences with natural F0 contours was compared to the intelligibility of monotone (flat-F0) sentences created via speech resynthesis. In a quiet background, flat-F0 speech was just as intelligible as natural speech (about 94% intelligible), highlighting the robustness of the language comprehension system. However, when babble noise was added (0 db SNR) flat-F0 speech was substantially less intelligible than natural speech (60% vs. 80% intelligible), indicating that F0 variation is very important for Mandarin sentence intelligibility in noise.
AB - This study tested the importance of F0 variation for tone language comprehension. The intelligibility of Mandarin sentences with natural F0 contours was compared to the intelligibility of monotone (flat-F0) sentences created via speech resynthesis. In a quiet background, flat-F0 speech was just as intelligible as natural speech (about 94% intelligible), highlighting the robustness of the language comprehension system. However, when babble noise was added (0 db SNR) flat-F0 speech was substantially less intelligible than natural speech (60% vs. 80% intelligible), indicating that F0 variation is very important for Mandarin sentence intelligibility in noise.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088238284
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
BT - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010
PB - International Speech Communications Association
T2 - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010
Y2 - 10 May 2010 through 14 May 2010
ER -