Abstract
Chinese is a tonal language, which differentiates it from non-tonal
languages in the Western countries. A Chinese character consists of an
initial, a final, and a tone. In the present study, the effects of noise
and reverberation on the Chinese syllable, initial, final, and tone
identification in rooms were investigated by using simulated binaural
impulse responses through auralization method. The results show that the
syllable identification score is the lowest, the tone identification score
is the highest, and the initial identification scores are lower than those
of the final identification under the same reverberation time and
signal-to-noise ratio condition. The Chinese syllable, initial, and final
identification scores increase with the increase of signal-to-noise ratio
and decrease of the reverberation time. The noise and reverberation have
insignificant effects on the Chinese tone identification scores under most
room acoustical environments. The statistical relationship between the
Chinese syllable articulation and phoneme articulation had been
experimentally proved under different noise and reverberation conditions
in simulated rooms.
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