BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16857-f6ed18ae7fc8456c28dbc2c497850e34@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T204628Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T103000 SUMMARY:Brittany Williams (Penn State) - Studying Speech Perception in Adverse L istening Conditions DESCRIPTION:Studying Speech Perception in Adverse Listening Conditions\n \n \;\n\nDuring communication\, listeners are often tasked with unde rstanding speech despite complex acoustic environments. These adverse li stening conditions can result from environmental noise as well as differ ences in speakers such as vocal tract size\, native language\, relative spatial location\, etc. Yet\, listeners are surprisingly successful at o vercoming this variability to efficiently perceive speech (i.e.\, target ) in the presence of competing signals (i.e.\, maskers). Speech-in-speec h recognition is particularly difficult because targets and maskers can be very similar. One way listeners might resolve this issue is by tuning into the differing spectral and temporal characteristics between the ta rget and masker. Another possibility is that intelligibility improves du e to differing linguistic interference between the target and masker. Al ternatively\, listeners might benefit from a combination of both spectro -temporal factors and linguistic interference. In this talk\, I will foc us on a phenomenon called linguistic release from masking (LRM) in which listeners more easily segregate target and masker speech streams when t hey are unable to understand the linguistic content of the masker speech . Clearly\, LRM increases ease of segregability of target-masker speech streams. Several studies have investigated LRM\, but there is still room for further progress determining which factors drive this effect. Exten ding our understanding of LRM has important implications for addressing how listeners with typical and impaired hearing cope with speech-in-spee ch recognition in everyday listening conditions.\n\nFor more details: ht tps://events.la.psu.edu/event/brittany-williams-penn-state-studying-spee ch-perception-in-adverse-listening-conditions/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Studying Speech Perception in Adverse Listening Condition s

 

During communication, listeners are often tasked w ith understanding speech despite complex acoustic environments. These ad verse listening conditions can result from environmental noise as well a s differences in speakers such as vocal tract size, native language, rel ative spatial location, etc. Yet, listeners are surprisingly successful at overcoming this variability to efficiently perceive speech (i.e., tar get) in the presence of competing signals (i.e., maskers). Speech-in-spe ech recognition is particularly difficult because targets and maskers ca n be very similar. One way listeners might resolve this issue is by tuni ng into the differing spectral and temporal characteristics between the target and masker. Another possibility is that intelligibility improves due to differing linguistic interference between the target and masker. Alternatively, listeners might benefit from a combination of both spectr o-temporal factors and linguistic interference. In this talk, I will foc us on a phenomenon called linguistic release from masking (LRM) in which listeners more easily segregate target and masker speech streams when t hey are unable to understand the linguistic content of the masker speech . Clearly, LRM increases ease of segregability of target-masker speech s treams. Several studies have investigated LRM, but there is still room f or further progress determining which factors drive this effect. Extendi ng our understanding of LRM has important implications for addressing ho w listeners with typical and impaired hearing cope with speech-in-speech recognition in everyday listening conditions.

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