Measuring the Band Importance Function for Mandarin Chinese with a Bayesian Adaptive Procedure

Yufan Du, Yi Shen, Hongying Yang, Xihong Wu and Jing Chen

Abstract:

A speech intelligibility index (SII) based band importance function (BIF) for Mandarin monosyllabic words spoken by a female speaker was derived with an adaptive procedure in this work. The adaptive procedure, namely the quick-band-importance-function (qBIF) procedure, optimized the stimulus on each trial according listeners’ performance on proceeding trials in an iterative fashion. This method greatly improved the efficiency of data collection. Test-retest experiments were conducted and confirmed the reliability of this adaptive procedure at a group level. The BIF derived in this work showed generally consistence with the BIF derived with the traditional paradigm with noticeable differences at certain frequencies.

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Cite as: Du, Y., Shen, Y., Yang, H., Wu, X., Chen, J. (2018) Measuring the Band Importance Function for Mandarin Chinese with a Bayesian Adaptive Procedure. Proc. Interspeech 2018, 961-965, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825.

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BiBTeX Entry:

@inproceedings{Du2018,
author={Yufan Du and Yi Shen and Hongying Yang and Xihong Wu and Jing Chen},
title={Measuring the Band Importance Function for Mandarin Chinese with a Bayesian Adaptive Procedure},
year=2018,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2018},
pages={961--965},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1825} }