An examination of error reductions in consonant recognition when vision and hearing are combined.
Errors in judging by 9 men and 9 women the three acoustic cues for consonant recognition, those of voice, place of articulation, and manner of articulation, were markedly reduced by 70% or more when vision was added to hearing in a word-in-noise discrimination task. The extent of error reduction is surprising especially for the least-visible voice cue.
Berryman
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock 72205, USA.
Dancer
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Burl
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception