Speech intelligibility of diagonally localized speech with competing noise using bone-conduction headphones
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We investigated the speech intelligibility differences of normal and bone-conduction stereo headphones of target speech localized at 45◦ on the horizontal plane when competing noise is present. This was our effort to study the possible effect of crosstalk found in bone-conduction headphones on speech intelligibility. All sound sources were localized on the horizontal plane. Target speech was localized at 45◦ diagonal relative to the listener, while babble noise was localized at various azimuths and distances from the listener. The SNR was set to 0,-6,-12 dB. We found little difference in intelligibility by headphone types, suggesting that cross-talk in bone-conduction headphones have negligible effect on intelligibility.
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