PMMSD: Development of the Matrix Sentence Intelligibility Dataset for Mandarin with Lombard Effect

Hanchen Pei, Yuhong Yang, Xufeng Chen, Qingmu Liu, Hongyang Chen, Weiping Tu, Song Lin

Abstract: This paper presents a Paired Mandarin Matrix Sentence Dataset (PMMSD), which will be available after publication. PMMSD is the first Mandarin matrix sentence intelligibility dataset containing both plain and Lombard speech for scientific research. The results verify that different Lombard styles would affect word intelligibility to different degrees and the Lombard effect helps maintain homogeneous intelligibility against contextual interference. All of the discoveries indicate that the Lombard effect should be considered when building intelligibility datasets with noise in the future.