Abstract
Detection thresholds for temporal synchrony in auditory and auditory-visual sentence materials were obtained on normal-hearing subjects. For auditory conditions, thresholds were determined using an adaptive-tracking procedure to control the degree of temporal asynchrony of a narrow audio band of speech, both positive and negative in separate tracks, relative to three other narrow audio bands of speech. For auditory-visual conditions, thresholds were determined in a similar manner for each of four narrow audio bands of speech as well as a broadband speech condition, relative to a video image of a female speaker. Four different auditory filter conditions, as well as a broadband auditory-visual speech condition, were evaluated in order to determine whether detection thresholds were dependent on the spectral content of the acoustic speech signal. Consistent with previous studies of auditory-visual speech recognition which showed a broad, asymmetrical range of temporal synchrony for which intelligibility was basically unaffected (audio delays roughly between -40ms and +240 ms), auditory-visual synchrony detection thresholds also showed a broad, asymmetrical pattern of similar magnitude (audio delays roughly between -45ms and +200 ms). No differences in synchrony thresholds were observed for the different filtered bands of speech, or for broadband speech. In contrast, detection thresholds for audio-alone conditions were much smaller (between -17ms and +23ms) and symmetrical. These results suggest a fairly tight coupling between a subject's ability to detect cross-spectral (auditory) and cross-modal (auditory-visual) asynchrony and the intelligibility of auditory and auditory-visual speech materials. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 43-53 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Speech Communication |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 1-4 SPEC. ISS. |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2004 |
Keywords
- Auditory-visual speech processing
- Cross-modal asynchrony
- Spectro-temporal asynchrony
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Modeling and Simulation
- Communication
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Science Applications