Temporal cues for consonant recognition: Training, talker generalization, and use in evaluation of cochlear implants

摘要: Limited consonant phonemic information can be conveyed by the temporal characteristics of speech. In two experiments reported here, effects practice and multiple talkers on identification were evaluated. Naturally produced /aCa/ disyllables used to create ‘‘temporal‐only’’ stimuli having instantaneous amplitudes identical natural speech stimuli, but flat spectra. Practice improved normal‐hearing subjects’ temporal‐only from a single talker over that earlier for different group unpracticed subjects [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 82, 1152–1161 (1987)]. When number was increased six, however, performance poorer than observed one talker, demonstrating had been able learn individual stimulus items derived talker. Even after practice, varied greatly in their abilities extract related voicing m...