Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech for native and non-native speakers of English

摘要

BackgroundMasking release for an English sentence-recognition task in the presence of foreign-accented English speech compared to native-accented English speech was reported in . The masking release appeared to increase as the masker intelligibility decreased. However, it could not be ruled out that spectral differences between the speech maskers were influencing the significant differences observed.