Abstract
Carney et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2270 (1999)] reported on talker and listener effects for auditory–visual speech perception for syllabic stimuli that were disparate [a visual /gi/ paired with an auditory /bi/ or a visual /bi/ paired with an auditory /gi/]. Listeners varied in the ratios of fused and combination responses (the McGurk effect) to auditory responses, depending upon the talker and their own most frequently observed mode of perception. The purpose of this experiment was to determine if listener and talker variability could be manipulated by recombining talkers’ voices with different talkers’ faces. Green et al. [Percept. Psychophys. 50, 524–536] had demonstrated that the McGurk effect was observed even when voices and faces did not match in gender. The same 11 talkers (5 male and 6 female) were used from the Carney et al. experiment. Twenty-four listeners heard the combination of all male talkers with each other and all female talkers with each other. Similar patterns of listener and talker variability were observed even when voices and faces did not match, supporting the earlier conclusion that the McGurk effect is a graded phenomenon, depending upon listener and talker. [Work supported by NIDCD.]
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