Perceptual effects of preceding nonspeech rate on temporal properties of speech categories

Wade, Travis; Holt, Lori L.

doi:10.3758/bf03193621

Cited by 54 publications

(77 citation statements)

References 51 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This has been used to argue that rate normalization takes place before other early perceptual processes, such as stream segregation (i.e., the perceptual separation of voices), occur. Rate normalization can be elicited by nonspeech contexts (e.g., Diehl & Walsh, 1989;Wade & Holt, 2005), and it has been found in non-human perception (e.g., Welch, Sawusch, & Dent, 2009). More recently, studies using eye tracking have shown that listeners use speaking rate online during speech perception to interpret upcoming sounds as soon as they become available in the acoustic signal (Reinisch et al 2011, Reinisch & Sjerps, 2013.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural fast speech is perceived as faster than linearly time-compressed speech

Reinisch

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Listeners compensate for variation in speaking rate: In a fast context, a given sound is interpreted as longer than in a slow context. Experimental rate manipulations have been achieved either through linear compression or by using natural fast speech. However, in natural fast speech, segments are subject to processes such as reduction or deletion. If speaking rate is then defined as the number of segments per unit time, the question arises as to what impact such processes have on listeners' normalization for speaking rate. The present study tested the effect of sentence duration and fast-speech processes on rate normalization for a German vowel duration contrast. Results showed that a naturally produced short sentence containing segmental reductions and deletions led to the most BlongB vowel responses whereas the long sentence with clearly articulated segments led to the fewest. This suggests that speaking rate is not merely calculated as the number of segments realized per unit time. Rather, listeners associate properties of natural fast speech with a higher speaking rate. This contrasts with earlier results and a second experiment in which perceived speaking rate was measured in an explicit task. Models of speech comprehension are evaluated with regard to the present findings.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural fast speech is perceived as faster than linearly time-compressed speech

Reinisch

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The finding that the effects are spectrally local can be compared to the conclusions drawn from an earlier study of temporal contrast effects. As mentioned earlier, Wade and Holt (2005) found that a sequence of pure tones presented at a rapid rate resulted in more /wa/ responses, whereas a sequence presented at a slower rate resulted in more /ba/ responses to the target. The results were therefore consistent with a temporal contrast effect, in which a faster precursor rate led listeners to judge the following transitions as slower.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…In addition to spectral contrast effects, temporal contrast effects also occur in speech perception (e.g., Diehl and Walsh, 1989;Wade and Holt, 2005). For instance, Wade and Holt (2005) measured the influence of the presentation rate of a preceding sequence of pure tones on the perception of stimuli generated from a continuum between /ba/ and /wa/, as defined by the duration of formant transitions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Wade and Holt (2005) measured the influence of the presentation rate of a preceding sequence of pure tones on the perception of stimuli generated from a continuum between /ba/ and /wa/, as defined by the duration of formant transitions. They observed that a rapid presentation rate of the preceding pure tones resulted in more /wa/ responses, corresponding to the perception of a longer formant transition, while a slower presentation rate resulted in more /ba/ responses, corresponding to the perception of a shorter formant transition.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Spectral motion contrast as a speech context effect

Wang

Oxenham

2014

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Spectral contrast effects may help "normalize" the incoming sound and produce perceptual constancy in the face of the variable acoustics produced by different rooms, talkers, and backgrounds. Recent studies have concentrated on the after-effects produced by the long-term average power spectrum. The present study examined contrast effects based on spectral motion, analogous to visual-motion after-effects. In experiment 1, the existence of spectral-motion after-effects with word-length inducers was established by demonstrating that the identification of the direction of a target spectral glide was influenced by the spectral motion of a preceding inducer glide. In experiment 2, the target glide was replaced with a synthetic sine-wave speech sound, including a formant transition. The speech category boundary was shifted by the presence and direction of the inducer glide. Finally, in experiment 3, stimuli based on synthetic sine-wave speech sounds were used as both context and target stimuli to show that the spectral-motion after-effects could occur even with inducers with relatively short speech-like durations and small frequency excursions. The results suggest that spectral motion may play a complementary role to the long-term average power spectrum in inducing speech context effects.

show abstract

“…Rate normalization takes place as soon as the target sound is heard [5], may be elicited by non-speech contexts (e.g., tone sequences; [6]), operates independent of cognitive load [7], and interestingly also generalizes across talkers. That is, the perception of talker A is influenced by the speech rate produced by talker B [8,9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Our own speech rate influences speech perception

Bosker

2016

Speech Prosody 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

During conversation, spoken utterances occur in rich acoustic contexts, including speech produced by our interlocutor(s) and speech we produced ourselves. Prosodic characteristics of the acoustic context have been known to influence speech perception in a contrastive fashion: for instance, a vowel presented in a fast context is perceived to have a longer duration than the same vowel in a slow context. Given the ubiquity of the sound of our own voice, it may be that our own speech rate -a common source of acoustic context -also influences our perception of the speech of others. Two experiments were designed to test this hypothesis. Experiment 1 replicated earlier contextual rate effects by showing that hearing pre-recorded fast or slow context sentences alters the perception of ambiguous Dutch target words. Experiment 2 then extended this finding by showing that talking at a fast or slow rate prior to the presentation of the target words also altered the perception of those words. These results suggest that between-talker variation in speech rate production may induce between-talker variation in speech perception, thus potentially explaining why interlocutors tend to converge on speech rate in dialogue settings.

show abstract

Perceptual effects of preceding nonspeech rate on temporal properties of speech categories

Cited by 54 publications

References 51 publications

Natural fast speech is perceived as faster than linearly time-compressed speech

Natural fast speech is perceived as faster than linearly time-compressed speech

Spectral motion contrast as a speech context effect

Our own speech rate influences speech perception

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About