Effects of interpersonal familiarity on the auditory distance perception of level-equalized reverberant speech

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2020-12-01

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Demirkaplan, Ozgen
Hacıhabiboğlu, Hüseyin

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Familiarity with sound sources is known to have a modulatory effect on auditory distance perception. However, the level of familiarity that can affect distance perception is not clearly understood. A subjective experiment that aims to investigate the effects of interpersonal familiarity on auditory distance perception with level-equalized stimuli is reported. The experiment involves a binaural listening task where different source distances between 0.5 and 16 m were emulated by convolving dry speech signals with measured binaural room impulse responses. The experimental paradigm involved level-equalized stimuli comprising speech signals recorded from different-gender couples who have self-reported to have known each other for more than a year with daily interaction. Each subject judged the distances of a total of 15 different speech stimuli from their partner as well as spectrally most similar and most dissimilar strangers, for six different emulated distances. The main finding is that a similar but unfamiliar speaker is localized to be further away than a familiar speaker. Another finding is that the semantic properties of speech can potentially have a modulating effect on auditory distance judgements.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/69976

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ACTA ACUSTICA

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https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2020025

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O. Demirkaplan and H. Hacıhabiboğlu, “Effects of interpersonal familiarity on the auditory distance perception of level-equalized reverberant speech,” ACTA ACUSTICA, pp. 0–0, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/69976.