Modeling the effect of linguistic predictability on speech intelligibility prediction

JASA Express Lett. 2023 Mar;3(3):035207. doi: 10.1121/10.0017648.

Abstract

Many existing speech intelligibility prediction (SIP) algorithms can only account for acoustic factors affecting speech intelligibility and cannot predict intelligibility across corpora with different linguistic predictability. To address this, a linguistic component was added to five existing SIP algorithms by estimating linguistic corpus predictability using a pre-trained language model. The results showed improved SIP performance in terms of correlation and prediction error over a mixture of four datasets, each with a different English open-set corpus.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Cognition
  • Language
  • Linguistics*
  • Speech Intelligibility*