Intelligibility of information in temporally desynchronized bands of speech
Bibliographic record
Abstract
[Stilp et al., [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 3195 (2007)] demonstrated that acoustic measures of potential information, absent explicit linguistic information, are closely related to intelligibility of locally time-reversed sentences. Here, this finding is replicated in two experiments in which synchronization of speech energy within four spectral bands was perturbed in different ways. An ensemble of seven-syllable sentences was synthesized at three different speaking rates (2.5, 5.0, 10 syllables/s) and filtered by one-third-octave Butterworth filters centered at 335, 850, 2135, and 5400 Hz. In Experiment 1, onset of the 335- and 5,400-Hz bands was delayed by multiple durations (0, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 600 ms). Across speaking rates, intelligibility was a nonmonotonic function of delay with local minima corresponding to roughly one syllable. Smaller and larger delays yielded better performance. In Experiment 2, bands were nonlinearly scaled in time (jittered) to preserve overall duration with local rate adjusted to preserve the same overall degree of desynchronization as Experiment 1. Performance monotonically decreased with increasing jitter. Overall, results closely mimic previous findings for locally time-reserved sentences, and provide support that physical acoustic potential information closely relates to intelligibility of temporally distorted speech. [Work supported by NIDCD.]
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
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