title: Melodic contour identification and sentence recognition using sung speech.
abstract: For bimodal cochlear implant users, acoustic and electric hearing has been shown to contribute differently to speech and music perception. However, differences in test paradigms and stimuli in speech and music testing can make it difficult to assess the relative contributions of each device. To address these concerns, the Sung Speech Corpus (SSC) was created. The SSC contains 50 monosyllable words sung over an octave range and can be used to test both speech and music perception using the same stimuli. Here SSC data are presented with normal hearing listeners and any advantage of musicianship is examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1042 Downey Way, Denney Research Center 140, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Crew
authors.affiliation: Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA jcrew@usc.edu, jgalvin@ucla.edu, qfu@mednet.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Galvin
authors.affiliation: Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA jcrew@usc.edu, jgalvin@ucla.edu, qfu@mednet.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Qian-Jie
authors.initials: QJ
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010898:Pitch Perception; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D063346:Singing; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D014833:Voice Quality; D055815:Young Adult