Electrical Engineering and Systems Science > Audio and Speech Processing
[Submitted on 1 Jul 2021]
Title:Prediction of tone detection thresholds in interaurally delayed noise based on interaural phase difference fluctuations
View PDFAbstract:Differences between the interaural phase of a noise and a target tone improve detection thresholds. The maximum masking release is obtained for detecting an antiphasic tone (S$\pi$) in diotic noise (N0). It has been shown in several studies that this benefit gradually declines as an interaural delay is applied to the N0S$\pi$ complex. This decline has been attributed to the reduced interaural coherence of the noise. Here, we report detection thresholds for a 500 Hz tone in masking noise with up to 8 ms interaural delay and bandwidths from 25 to 1000 Hz. When reducing the noise bandwidth from 100 to 50 and 25 Hz, the masking release at 8 ms delay increases, as expected for increasing temporal coherence with decreasing bandwidth. For bandwidths of 100 to 1000 Hz, no significant difference was observed and detection thresholds with these noises have a delay dependence that is fully described by the temporal coherence imposed by the typical monaurally determined auditory filter bandwidth. A minimalistic binaural model is suggested based on interaural phase difference fluctuations without the assumption of delay lines.
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