Cutting silent pauses from masker speech keeps it a continuous uninterrupted stream

Evidence

In order to have a spatially complex masker, the interfering speech consisted of two streams of ongoing speech spoken by two different female talkers, and was obtained from two audio books in the German language. Any silent intervals exceeding 100 ms were cut from the signals to ensure a natural-sounding continuous speech stream without pauses. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1627 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Two-talker maskers require continuous streams with pauses removed; Random audio-book segments make effective continuous speech maskers — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1628; Plosive pauses of 60-150 ms go unnoticed in speech perception — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1495 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cutting silent gaps over 100 ms makes audio books into continuous speech streams. #corroborates (0.96) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1627
• Two-talker maskers require continuous streams with pauses removed #corroborates (0.93)