Speech Perception: A Language-Trained Chimpanzee Weighs In

Speech Perception: A Language-Trained Chimpanzee Weighs In

A language-trained chimpanzee is able to interpret synthetic 'auditory caricatures' as speech. Important components of human speech perception thus rely upon general auditory mechanisms that predated the evolution of spoken language.

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Discriminatively trained dependency language modeling for conversational speech recognition

We present a discriminatively trained dependency parserbased language model. The model operates on utterances, rather than words, and so can utilize long-distance structural features of each sentence. We train the model discriminatively on n-best lists, using the perceptron algorithm to tune the model weights. Our features include standard n-gram style features, long-distance co-occurrence feat...

Research on Spoken Language Processing Speech Perception

Do Native-language Loanwords Affect Second-language Speech Perception?

Japanese has many loanwords from English that have different syllable structure from the source words, e.g., /sutoresu/ from English stress. To investigate whether the abundance of such familiar loanwords interferes with accurate perception of the English source words, native Japanese listeners were asked to count syllables in spoken English words that varied in the degree to which familiar loa...