Abstract
It is widely recognized that depression is associated with deficits in communication behaviors (Miller, 1975), but few studies have examined speech intelligibility in talkers and listeners with elevated depressive symptoms. The present study examined intelligibility of conversational and clear speech sentences in the presence of speech shaped noise and one-talker babble noise. Talkers and listeners were young adults varying on the extent of depressive symptoms, and classified as having high depressive (HD) symptoms or low depressive (LD) symptoms based on a self-report scale (Radloff, 1977). The results showed that increased intelligibility through conversational-to-clear speech modifications was smaller for HD listeners than LD listeners during only one-talker babble noise which is consistent with Chandrasekaran et al. (2014). Intelligibility was scored lower for the sentences produced by HD speakers compared to LD speakers. Acoustic analyses indicate smaller conversation-to-clear speech modifications for...
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