Oral, head and neck cancer represents 3% of all cancers in the United States and is the 6th most common cancer worldwide. Depending on the tumor size, location and staging, patients are treated by radical surgery, radiology, chemotherapy or a combination of those treatments. As a result, their anatomical structures for speech are impaired and this leads to some negative impact on their speech i...

Due to their periodic nature, neural oscillations might represent an optimal "tool" for the processing of rhythmic stimulus input [1-3]. Indeed, the alignment of neural oscillations to a rhythmic stimulus, often termed phase entrainment, has been repeatedly demonstrated [4-7]. Phase entrainment is central to current theories of speech processing [8-10] and has been associated with successful sp...

In our earlier work, we have measured human intelligibility of stimuli reconstructed either from the short-time magnitude spectra or short-time phase spectra of a speech signal. We demonstrated that, even for small analysis window durations of 20-40 ms (of relevance to automatic speech recognition), the short-time phase spectrum can contribute to speech intelligibility as much as the short-time...

It is possible to increase the intelligibility of speech in noise by enhancing the clean speech signal. In this paper we demonstrate the effects of modifying the spectral envelope of synthetic speech according to the environmental noise. To achieve this, we modify Mel cepstral coefficients according to an intelligibility measure that accounts for glimpses of speech in noise: the Glimpse Proport...

A computer-aided analytical speech perception test and a helpful training program have been developed. The test is analytical and seeks to evaluate the ability to perceive a range of sound contrasts used in the Swedish language. The test is tailored for measurements with children, who have not yet learnt to read, by using easy speech stimuli, words selected on the basis of familiarity, and pict...

Sentences spoken "clearly" (and slowly) are significantly more intelligible than those spoken "conversationally" for hearing-impaired listeners in a variety of backgrounds [Picheny, Durlach, and Braida, J. Speech Hear. Res. 28, 96-103 (1985); Uchanski et al., J. Speech Hear. Res. 39, 494-509 (1996); Payton, Uchanski, and Braida, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 1581-1592 (1994)]. However, it is unknown ...

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are found to have difficulties in understanding speech adverse conditions. In this study, we used noise-vocoded (VS) investigate neural processing of degraded individuals ASD. We ran fMRI experiments the ASD group and a typically developed control (TDC) while they listened clear (CS), VS, spectrally rotated VS (SRVS), were requested pay attention ...

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