Reversed Speech

2010, a Speech Oddity: Phonetic Transcription of Reversed Speech

Time reversal is often used in experimental studies on language perception and understanding, but little is known on its precise impact on speech sounds. Strikingly, some studies consider reversed speech chunks as “speech” stimuli lacking lexical information while others use them as “non speech” control conditions. The phonetic perception of reversed speech has not been thoroughly studied so fa...

Masking speech with its time-reversed signal

Phonetic Restoration of Temporally Reversed Speech

Early study showed that temporally reversed speech may still be very intelligible. The present work further assessed the role of acoustic cues accounting for the intelligibility of temporally reversed speech. Mandarin sentences were edited to be temporally reversed. Experiment 1 preserved the original consonant segments, and experiment 2 only preserved the temporally reversed fine-structure wav...

Cognitive Reconstruction of Reversed Speech in French

In the present study we explore the implication of high and low level mechanisms in degraded (time-reversed) speech comprehension in normal hearing subjects. In experiment 1 we compared the loss of intelligibility due to the increasing size of reversion windows in both words and pseudowords. Results showed that words are generally reconstructed better than pseudowords, suggesting the existence ...

Reversed speech comprehension depends on the auditory efferent system functionality

In the present study we explore the implication of high and low level mechanisms in degraded (time-reversed) speech comprehension in normal hearing subjects. In experiment 1 we compared the loss of intelligibility due to the increasing size of reversion windows in both words and pseudowords. Results showed that words are generally reconstructed better than pseudowords, suggesting the existence ...