Implicit Talker Training Improves Comprehension of Auditory Speech in Noise.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that listeners are better able to understand speech when they are familiar with the talker's voice. In most of these studies, talker familiarity was ensured by explicit voice training; that is, listeners learned to identify the familiar talkers. In the real world, however, the characteristics of familiar talkers are learned incidentally, through communication. The present study investigated whether speech comprehension benefits from implicit voice training; that is, through exposure to talkers' voices without listeners explicitly trying to identify them. During four training sessions, listeners heard short sentences containing a single verb (e.g., "he writes"), spoken by one talker. The sentences were mixed with noise, and listeners identified the verb within ea

SUBMITTER: Kreitewolf J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5603660 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature