TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring the band importance function for Mandarin Chinese with an Bayesian adaptive procedure
AU - Du, Yufan
AU - Shen, Yi
AU - Yang, Hongying
AU - Wu, Xihong
AU - Chen, Jing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Band importance function
KW - Mandarin Chinese
KW - Speech intelligibility index
KW - The qBIF procedure
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U2 - 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825
DO - 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85054985736
SN - 2308-457X
VL - 2018-September
SP - 961
EP - 965
JO - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
JF - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
T2 - 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018
Y2 - 2 September 2018 through 6 September 2018
ER -