Adaptation to Reverberation for Speech Perception: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: In everyday acoustic environments, reverberation alters the speech signal received at the ears. Normal-hearing listeners are robust to these distortions, quickly recalibrating to achieve accurate speech perception. Over the past two decades, multiple studies have investigated the various adaptation mechanisms that listeners use to mitigate the negative impacts of reverberation and improve speech intelligibility. Following the PRISMA guidelines, we performed a systematic review of these studies, with the aim to summarize existing research, identify open questions, and propose future directions. Two researchers independently assessed a total of 661 studies, ultimately including 23 in the review. Our results showed that adaptation to reverberant speech is robust across diverse environments, e

SUBMITTER: Tsironis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11384524 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature