Segregation of competing speech in adults and children with normal hearing and in children with cochlear implants

• DOI: 10.1121/10.0005597
• Publication Date: 2021-07-14T11:49:53Z
• Authors: Ji-Sheng Liu; Yang-Wenyi Liu; Ya-Feng Yu; John J. Galvin; Qian-Jie Fu; Duo-Duo Tao
• Keywords: Mandarin Chinese

Children with normal hearing (CNH) have greater difficulty segregating competing speech than do adults (ANH). cochlear implants (CCI) CNH. In the present study, reception thresholds (SRTs) in were measured Chinese Mandarin-speaking ANH, CNH, and CCIs. Target sentences produced by a male talker. Maskers time-forward or -reversed native (different from target) female non-native English-speaking male. The SRTs lowest (best) for ANH group, followed CNH CCI groups. masking release (MR) was comparable between but much poorer group. temporal properties differed maskers forward reversed speech. of significantly associated groups not Whereas MR all three groups, association stronger