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...

In this paper our aim is to investigate the properties of the modulation domain and more specifically, to evaluate the relative contributions of the modulation magnitude and phase spectra towards speech intelligibility. For this purpose, we extend the traditional (acoustic domain) analysis–modification–synthesis framework to include modulation domain processing. We use this framework to constru...

UNLABELLED The current study was undertaken to investigate the impact of speech motor issues on the speech intelligibility of children with moderate to severe speech sound disorders (SSD) within the context of the PROMPT intervention approach. The word-level Children's Speech Intelligibility Measure (CSIM), the sentence-level Beginner's Intelligibility Test (BIT) and tests of speech motor contr...

PURPOSE To determine the mechanisms of speech intelligibility impairment due to neurologic impairments, intelligibility decline was modeled as a function of co-occurring changes in the articulatory, resonatory, phonatory, and respiratory subsystems. METHOD Sixty-six individuals diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were studied longitudinally. The disease-related changes in artic...

Running Title: Syllable intelligibility for ltered cepstral trajectories Received: T. Arai et al., \Syllable intelligibility for ltered cepstral trajectories," JASA 2 Abstract We measured the intelligibility of syllables whose cepstral trajectories were temporally ltered. The speech signals were transformed to their LPC cepstral coeecients, and these coeecients were passed through diierent lter...

This paper reports on preliminary experiments aimed at standardizing speech intelligibility of military Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT) using average power levels of callsign items measured by the Root Mean Square (RMS) and maximum power levels of callsign items (Peak). The results obtained indicate that at a minimum sound pressure level (SPL) of 10.57 dBHL, the CAT tests were more difficult th...

The current longitudinal study examined the consequences of spouses' tendencies to forgive their partners over the first 2 years of 72 new marriages. Though positive main effects between forgiveness and marital outcomes emerged cross-sectionally, spouses' tendencies to forgive their partners interacted with the frequency of those partners' negative verbal behaviors to predict changes in marital...

This paper is a reply to an accompanying set of six commentaries by Sidman; Hayes and Barnes; Schusterman, Kastak, and Reichmuth; Tonneau and Sokolowski; Lowenkron; and Moerk. Those commentaries were prompted by our article ‘‘On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior’’ (1996), which was, in turn, followed by 26 commentaries and a reply. In the course of the present reply, we further ...

Differences in pronunciation have been shown to underlie significant talker-dependent intelligibility differences. There are several dimensions of variability that are correlated with talker intelligibility including pitch range, vowel-space expansion, and rhythmic patterns. Prior work has shown that some of the better predictors of individual intelligibility are based on the talker’s F1 by F2 ...