Perceptual restoration of degraded speech: The effects of linguistic structure.

ABSTRACT: Listeners can understand speech even when its temporal structure is acoustically distorted. Ishida et al. (Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1749, 2018) reported that native English speakers could comprehend English sentences using two types of temporal distortions: (1) speech signals divided into equally timed segments, with each segment reversed in time (locally time-reversed speech), and (2) speech signals with reduced modulation-frequency components shaping the amplitude envelope (modulation-filtered speech). While the results showed a similar pattern of intelligibility decline across these two conditions in English (a syllable-oriented language with consonant clusters) when degradation increased in six steps, it remained unclear whether this pattern holds in a linguistically distinct langua

SUBMITTER: Ishida M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12864291 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature