1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling: From Control Strategies to Acoustics
4th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data

Autrans, France
May 20-24, 1996

Auditory, Visual, and Audiovisual Speech Intelligibility of Consonants: A Comparison of Conversational and Dear Speech

Jean-Pierre Gagné, Anne-Josée Rochette

Ecole d'orthophonie et d'audiologie, U. de Montréal, Québec, Canada

The speech intelligibility of /C-v/ and /C-v-C/ syllables spoken under conditions of conversational and clear speech was compared. Six female adults were recorded while they produced four iterations of the stimulus set in each of the two speaking conditions. The recorded stimuli were randomized and presented to 12 subjects under three conditions: visual-only, auditory-only and auiovisually. Noise was mixed with the signal for the latter two conditions. The results were revealed a significant within and across talker variability in speech intelligibility. Also, a clear speech effect was observed in all three sensory modalities.

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Bibliographic reference.  Gagné, Jean-Pierre / Rochette, Anne-Josée (1996): "Auditory, visual, and audiovisual speech intelligibility of consonants: a comparison of conversational and dear speech", In SPM-1996, 233-236.