The Use of Voice Cues for Speaker Gender Recognition in Cochlear Implant Recipients.
Purpose: The focus of this study was to examine the influence of fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal tract length (VTL) modifications on speaker gender recognition in cochlear implant (CI) recipients for different stimulus types. Method: Single words and sentences were manipulated using isolated or...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 546 - 557 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=116433637&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 116433637 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2016 vid: 59 iid: 3 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 116433637 10.1044/2015_JSLHR-H-15-0128 ppf: 546 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 969KB tig: atl: The Use of Voice Cues for Speaker Gender Recognition in Cochlear Implant Recipients. aug: au: Meister, Hartmut Fürsen, Katrin Streicher, Barbara Lang-Roth, Ruth Walger, Martin affil: Jean Uhrmacher Institute for Clinical ENT Research, University of Cologne, Germany Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cologne, and Cochlear Implant Centre Cologne, Germany su: Patients Analysis of variance Masculinity Recognition (Psychology) Femininity Cochlear implants Goodness-of-fit tests Photography Research funding Statistics Human voice Data analysis Prompts (Psychology) Data analysis software Descriptive statistics Mann Whitney U Test sug: subj: Patients Analysis of variance Masculinity Recognition (Psychology) Femininity Cochlear implants Goodness-of-fit tests Photography Research funding Statistics Human voice Data analysis Prompts (Psychology) Data analysis software Descriptive statistics Mann Whitney U Test ab: Purpose: The focus of this study was to examine the influence of fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal tract length (VTL) modifications on speaker gender recognition in cochlear implant (CI) recipients for different stimulus types. Method: Single words and sentences were manipulated using isolated or combined F0 and VTL cues. Using an 11-point rating scale, CI recipients and listeners with normal hearing rated the maleness/femaleness of the corresponding voice. Results: Speaker gender ratings for combined F0 and VTL modifications were similar across all stimulus types in both CI recipients and listeners with normal hearing, although the CI recipients showed a somewhat larger ambiguity. In contrast to listeners with normal hearing, F0-VTL and F0-only modifications revealed similar ratings in the CI recipients when using words as stimuli. However, when sentences were used, a difference was found between F0-VTL--based and F0-based ratings. Modifying VTL cues alone did not affect ratings in the CI group. Conclusions: Whereas speaker gender ratings by listeners with normal hearing relied on combined VTL and F0 cues, CI recipients made only limited use of VTL cues, which might be one reason behind problems with identifying the speaker on the basis of voice. However, use of the voice cues depended on stimulus type, with the greater information in sentences allowing a more detailed analysis than single words in both listener groups. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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