Effectiveness of Two-Talker Maskers That Differ in Talker Congruity and Perceptual Similarity to the Target Speech

Previous work has shown that masked-sentence recognition is particularly poor when the masker is composed of two competing talkers, a finding that is attributed to informational masking. Informational masking tends to be largest when the target and masker talkers are perceptually similar. Reductions...

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Main Authors: Lauren Calandruccio, Emily Buss, Kristina Bowdrie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-06-01
Series:Trends in Hearing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216517709385