Comparing intelligibility of several non-native accent classes in noise
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How does noise affect perception of foreign accented speech? English sentences spoken by non-native talkers with various language backgrounds were presented to native speakers. The Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) was found for 5 different accent classes, and contrasted with noise-free intelligibility. Modest trends towards global differences in intelligibility based on accent class were found, both with and without noise. However, the pattern of results differed as a function of noise. This result suggests that noise and accent characteristics interact to differentially degrade intelligibility.
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