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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4237440 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Jin J Xie Lingli L Li Yongjun Y Chatterjee Monita M Ding Nai N
PloS one 20141119 11
This study investigated how speech recognition in noise is affected by language proficiency for individual non-native speakers. The recognition of English and Chinese sentences was measured as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in sixty native Chinese speakers who never lived in an English-speaking environment. The recognition score for speech in quiet (which varied from 15%-92%) was found to be uncorrelated with speech recognition threshold (SRTQ/2), i.e. the SNR at which the recogni ...[more]