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Effects Of Talker Variability On Categorization Of Spectrally Degraded Vowels., Emily A. Dickey
Effects Of Talker Variability On Categorization Of Spectrally Degraded Vowels., Emily A. Dickey
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
When a person listens to a context sentence with prominent higher frequencies, the subsequent vowel sound is more likely to be perceived as being of a lower frequency and vice versa. This is a spectral contrast effect (SCE). Recent work has shown that talker variability diminishes these SCEs. They were found to be smaller when 200 sentences were spoken by a different talker each time compared to one talker (Assgari & Stilp, 2015). Cochlear Implant (CI) users’ speech categorization is also influenced by SCEs but are known to struggle with talker discrimination. Here, I tested whether talker variability affected SCEs …