Effect of reverberation and noise type on speech intelligibility in real complex acoustic scenarios

GE Puglisi, A Warzybok, A Astolfi, B Kollmeier - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Enhanced speech intelligibility in realistic acoustic scenarios guarantees effective
communication. Noise and reverberation degrade speech intelligibility, but the combined …

Listening through hearing aids affects spatial perception and speech intelligibility in normal-hearing listeners

J Cubick, JM Buchholz, V Best, M Lavandier… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Cubick and Dau [(2016). Acta Acust. Acust. 102, 547–557] showed that speech reception
thresholds (SRTs) in noise, obtained with normal-hearing listeners, were significantly higher …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in real and loudspeaker-based virtual sound environments

A Ahrens, M Marschall, T Dau - Hearing Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Loudspeaker-based virtual sound environments provide a valuable tool for studying speech
perception in realistic, but controllable and reproducible acoustic environments. The …

Objective assessment of binaural benefit from acoustical treatment in real primary school classrooms

G Minelli, GE Puglisi, A Astolfi, C Hauth… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Providing students with an adequate acoustic environment is crucial for ensuring speech
intelligibility in primary school classrooms. Two main approaches to control acoustics in …

Effects of reverberation and noise on speech intelligibility in normal-hearing and aided hearing-impaired listeners

J Xia, B Xu, S Pentony, J Xu… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Many hearing-aid wearers have difficulties understanding speech in reverberant noisy
environments. This study evaluated the effects of reverberation and noise on speech …

The influence of informational masking in reverberant, multi-talker environments

A Westermann, JM Buchholz - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The relevance of informational masking (IM) in real-world listening is not well understood. In
literature, IM effects of up to 10 dB in measured speech reception thresholds (SRTs) are …

Normative data for a rapid, automated test of spatial release from masking

KM Jakien, FJ Gallun - American Journal of Audiology, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study is to report normative data and predict thresholds for a
rapid test of spatial release from masking for speech perception. The test is easily …

[HTML][HTML] Speech intelligibility in virtual restaurants

JF Culling - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) for a target voice on the same virtual table were
measured in various restaurant simulations under conditions of masking by between one …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial release from masking in the median plane with non-native speakers using individual and mannequin head related transfer functions

D González-Toledo, M Cuevas-Rodríguez… - The Journal of the …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Spatial release from masking (SRM) in speech-on-speech tasks has been widely studied in
the horizontal plane, where interaural cues play a fundamental role. Several studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting binaural speech intelligibility using the signal-to-noise ratio in the envelope power spectrum domain

A Chabot-Leclerc, EN MacDonald… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This study proposes a binaural extension to the multi-resolution speech-based envelope
power spectrum model (mr-sEPSM)[Jørgensen, Ewert, and Dau (2013). J. Acoust. Soc. Am …