No, I didn’t. I am a native English speaker from the Midwest part of America. I listened to it multiple times without hearing any speech in either of the sound effects.
After reading your comment, I listened to the audio again and now both audio samples do sound like a repeat of the speech. At no point did the audio samples sound different from one another, though.
The woman does have an English rather than American accent. I’m from England originally and the effect was quite dramatic the first time I listened to it: meaningless noise, then speech, then completely intelligible speech (the repeat of the original meaningless noise). The second time I listened to it some time later (after reading your comment) I could understand the speech in the first sound but it was clearer in the second. Listening to it again shortly afterwards the first and last sound both sounded like speech and sounded much the same as each other. I wonder whether the accent is a factor?
That’s very interesting. Can you try some of the other samples from Matt Davis’ page and report on your experiences?
When I listened to some of those the first time I was, as luck would have it, in a slightly noisy environment, so that I couldn’t quite catch some bits of the English text the first time around; the corresponding parts of the “sine wave speech” remained obscure for me until I had listened again to the clear text.
So for me the effect seems to be stronger rather than weaker as a result of the speaker’s accent plus English being a second language. I’m really puzzled as to why the effect might be weaker for you. Any ideas? Are you cognitively atypical in any way?
One reason I wished it had been two samples rather than one is that I thought I heard speech in the noise the first time, and wanted to listen again to see if I could figure it out without being primed.
This is the question I tried to answer elsewhere—After training on 4 or 5 samples I was able to hear the words in the remainder of the coded sentences the first time I heard them, without being primed by the decoded version of those sentences.
You didn’t hear the second part as a repeat of the speech? Are you not a native English speaker?
No, I didn’t. I am a native English speaker from the Midwest part of America. I listened to it multiple times without hearing any speech in either of the sound effects.
After reading your comment, I listened to the audio again and now both audio samples do sound like a repeat of the speech. At no point did the audio samples sound different from one another, though.
The woman does have an English rather than American accent. I’m from England originally and the effect was quite dramatic the first time I listened to it: meaningless noise, then speech, then completely intelligible speech (the repeat of the original meaningless noise). The second time I listened to it some time later (after reading your comment) I could understand the speech in the first sound but it was clearer in the second. Listening to it again shortly afterwards the first and last sound both sounded like speech and sounded much the same as each other. I wonder whether the accent is a factor?
That’s very interesting. Can you try some of the other samples from Matt Davis’ page and report on your experiences?
When I listened to some of those the first time I was, as luck would have it, in a slightly noisy environment, so that I couldn’t quite catch some bits of the English text the first time around; the corresponding parts of the “sine wave speech” remained obscure for me until I had listened again to the clear text.
So for me the effect seems to be stronger rather than weaker as a result of the speaker’s accent plus English being a second language. I’m really puzzled as to why the effect might be weaker for you. Any ideas? Are you cognitively atypical in any way?
One reason I wished it had been two samples rather than one is that I thought I heard speech in the noise the first time, and wanted to listen again to see if I could figure it out without being primed.
This is the question I tried to answer elsewhere—After training on 4 or 5 samples I was able to hear the words in the remainder of the coded sentences the first time I heard them, without being primed by the decoded version of those sentences.
reads in more detail indeed—thanks!