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  • Title: Modulation masking release using the Brazilian-Portuguese HINT: psychometric functions and the effect of speech time compression.
    Author: Grose JH, Griz S, Pacífico FA, Advíncula KP, Menezes DC.
    Journal: Int J Audiol; 2015 Apr; 54(4):274-81. PubMed ID: 25630394.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: The Brazilian-Portuguese hearing in noise test (HINT) was used to investigate the benefit to speech recognition of listening in a fluctuating background. The goal was to determine whether modulation masking release varied as a function of the speech-to-masker ratio at threshold. Speech-to-masker ratio at threshold was manipulated using the novel approach of adjusting the time-compression of the speech. DESIGN: Experiment 1 measured performance-intensity functions in both a steady speech-shaped noise masker and a 10-Hz square-wave modulated masker. Experiment 2 measured speech-to-masker ratios at threshold as a function of time-compression of the speech (0, 33, and 50%) in both maskers. STUDY SAMPLE: Participants were normal-hearing adults who were native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (Experiment 1: N = 10; Experiment 2: N = 30). RESULTS: The slope of the performance-intensity function was shallower in the modulated masker than in the steady masker for both words and sentences. Thresholds increased with increasing time-compression in both maskers, but more markedly in the modulated masker, resulting in reduced modulation masking release with increasing time-compression. CONCLUSIONS: Speech-to-masker ratio at threshold varies with time-compression of speech. The results are relevant to the issue of whether degree of masker modulation benefit depends on speech-to-masker ratio at threshold.
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