Roles of the target and masker fundamental frequencies in voice segregation

Deroche, Mickael L. D., Culling, John Francis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1107-9802, Chatterjee, Monita and Limb, Charles J. 2014. Roles of the target and masker fundamental frequencies in voice segregation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136 (3) , 1225. 10.1121/1.4890649

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Abstract

Intelligibility of a target voice improves when its fundamental frequency (F0) differs from that of a masking voice, but it remains unclear how this masking release (MR) depends on the two relative F0s. Three experiments measured speech reception thresholds (SRTs) for a target voice against different maskers. Experiment 1 evaluated the influence of target F0 itself. SRTs against white noise were elevated by at least 2 dB for a monotonized target voice compared with the unprocessed voice, but SRTs differed little for F0s between 50 and 150 Hz. In experiments 2 and 3, a MR occurred when there was a steady difference in F0 between the target voice and a stationary speech-shaped harmonic complex or a babble. However, this MR was considerably larger when the F0 of the masker was 11 semitones above the target F0 than when it was 11 semitones below. In contrast, for a fixed masker F0, the MR was similar whether the target F0 was above or below. The dependency of these MRs on the masker F0 suggests that a spectral mechanism such as glimpsing in between resolved masker partials may account for an important part of this phenomenon.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Acoustical Society of America
ISSN:	0001-4966
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 09:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/64786

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