title: The Importance of Acoustic Temporal Fine Structure Cues in Different Spectral Regions for Mandarin Sentence Recognition.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the relative contribution of acoustic temporal fine structure (TFS) cues in low-, mid-, and high-frequency regions to Mandarin sentence recognition.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-one subjects with normal hearing were involved in a study of Mandarin sentence recognition using acoustic TFS. The acoustic TFS information was extracted from 10 3-equivalent rectangular bandwidth-wide bands within the range 80 to 8858 Hz using the Hilbert transform and was assigned to low-, mid-, and high-frequency regions. Percent-correct recognition scores were obtained with acoustic TFS information presented using one, two, or three frequency regions. The relative weights of the three frequency regions were calculated using the least-squares approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results indicated that the mean percent-correct scores for sentence recognition using acoustic TFS were nearly perfect for stimuli with all three frequency regions together. Recognition was approximately 50 to 60% correct with only the low- or mid-frequency region but decreased to approximately 5% correct with only the high-frequency region of acoustic TFS. The mean weights of the low-, mid-, and high-frequency regions were 0.39, 0.48, and 0.13, respectively, and the difference between each pair of frequency regions was statistically significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The acoustic TFS cues in low- and mid-frequency regions convey greater information for Mandarin sentence recognition, whereas those in the high-frequency region have little effect.
authors: 1Department of Otolaryngology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China; and 2School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Bei
authors: B
authors: Li
authors: Hui
authors: H
authors: Wang
authors: Guang
authors: G
authors: Yang
authors: Limin
authors: L
authors: Hou
authors: Kaiming
authors: K
authors: Su
authors: Yanmei
authors: Y
authors: Feng
authors: Shankai
authors: S
authors: Yin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D064368:Healthy Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult