PURPOSE Research comparing the intelligibility of human and synthesized speech among both young children and adults has indicated that synthesized speech results in a degrading of intelligibility. The purpose of this study was to compare speech intelligibility of high-probability sentences produced using DECtalk Perfect Paul and live speech among monolingual English-speaking and bilingual child...

In adverse listening conditions, talkers can increase their intelligibility by speaking clearly[45, 55, 42]. While producing clear speech, however, talkers often reduce their speaking rate significantly[46, 55]. A recent study[28] showed that speaking slowly is not responsible for the high intelligibility of clear speech, since talkers can produce clear speech at normal rates with training. Thi...

Automatic prediction of speech intelligibility is highly desirable in the speech research community, since listening tests are timeconsuming and can not be used online. Most of the available objective speech intelligibility measures are intrusive methods, as they require a clean reference signal in addition to the corresponding noisy/processed signal at hand. In order to overcome the problem of...

Intelligibility in a telecommunication-based conference application can largely be improved, when the speech signals of the different interlocutors are presented spatially, and when the sources are spatially distributed. For the controlled exploitation of the underlying Cocktail Party Effect in speech chat applications, a prediction of the intelligibility related to a given spatial configuratio...

Early study showed that temporally reversed speech may still be very intelligible. The present work further assessed the role of acoustic cues accounting for the intelligibility of temporally reversed speech. Mandarin sentences were edited to be temporally reversed. Experiment 1 preserved the original consonant segments, and experiment 2 only preserved the temporally reversed fine-structure wav...

Existing objective speech-intelligibility measures are suitable for several types of degradation, however, it turns out that they are less appropriate in cases where noisy speech is processed by a time-frequency weighting. To this end, an extensive evaluation is presented of objective measure for intelligibility prediction of noisy speech processed with a technique called ideal time frequency (...

Objective: The aim of the present research was to compare the auditory perception and verbal intelligibility in children with cochlear implant, hearing aids and normal hearing. Methods: 60 children aged 5-7 years were divided to three groups and each group contained 20 children. The first and second groups were selected ordinarily from children with cochlear implant and hearing aids by conve...

Speech intelligibility is an essential though complex construct for evaluating dysarthric speech. Various procedures can be used to measure speech intelligibility, most of which are based on subjective ratings assigned by experts. Since these and laborious, automatic recognition (ASR) has been proposed obtain objective metrics intelligibility. Although promising results have reported, ASR gener...

This study investigated the extent to which noise impacts normal-hearing young adults' speech processing of sentences that vary in intelligibility. Intelligibility and recognition memory in noise were examined for conversational and clear speech sentences recorded in quiet (quiet speech, QS) and in response to the environmental noise (noise-adapted speech, NAS). Results showed that (1) increase...

OBJECTIVE Reduced intelligibility is a central concern in speech-impaired children, especially for parents. The main purpose of this study was to develop normative data for the intelligibility of Flemish-speaking boys and girls (age 2;06-5;0 years) as judged by their parents. Additionally, the influence of familiarity, gender and age of the child was determined. PATIENTS AND METHODS Word, sen...