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Table 5 Percentage of intelligibility with(n = 10) and without noise (n = 14) for each American English, British English and Indian English speaker. Only speakers who had 85% and above intelligibility were used in the actual experiment indicated with *

From: Does race impact speech perception? An account of accented speech in two different multilingual locales

 

English

Other language(s)

Percentage of intelligibility

Percentage of intelligibility with noise

Speaker 1*

American

None

98%

92%

Speaker 2*

American

None

98.5%

90%

Speaker 3*

British

None

96.2%

90%

Speaker 4

British

None

82%

78%

Speaker 5

British

None

92%

83.4%

Speaker 6

British

None

90%

82%

Speaker 7

British

None

93%

84%

Speaker 8*

British

None

94.4%

88%

Speaker 9

Indian

Tamil

77%

65%

Speaker 10

Indian

Tamil

81%

79%

Speaker 11*

Indian

Tamil, Telugu

91%

89%

Speaker 12

Indian

Tamil

68%

65%

Speaker 13*

Indian

Telugu

87%

85%

Speaker 14

Indian

Telugu

79%

72.5%