Evaluation of a short reverberant sound field using syllable intelligibility and listening difficulty under multitalker babble

Abstract

We used multitalker babble to degrade syllable intelligibility and listening difficulty while evaluating a short reverberant sound field. We found that listening difficulty increased with T60 with or without multitalker babble, while syllable intelligibility decreased with T60 only under the multitalker babble condition. The post hoc test using multiple comparison showed that syllable intelligibility decreased with T60 beyond 0.4 s with multitalker babble.