Priming from a masked presentation of a written stimulus has been a productive technique in exploring visual word recognition. The current study explored a method for masked speech priming recently introduced in the literature, in which a compressed spoken prime is embedded in masking stimuli and presented immediately prior to a target. This procedure was examined by first investigating the deg...

The present study examines the ability to comprehend speech presented at synthetically accelerated rates in an auditory display environment. We sought to determine whether listeners could accurately predict their own performance when listening to accelerated speech. Comprehension performance and selfconfidence ratings were compared at seven different rates of presentation. Self-confidence and a...

Fifteen subjects, aged 60 to 74 years, participated in a study to assess the role of discard interval (DI) length in the understanding of time-compressed connected speech by older adults. The subjects' task was to report associations among the items mentioned in a passage. Results indicate that performance deteriorated gradually until a critical DI of 75 msec was reached, beyond which performan...

When younger and older adults were allowed to adjust the speech rate of time-compressed and time-expanded speech passages, older adults tended to select as preferred rates significantly slower speech rates than the younger adults. Both age groups, however, selected slower rates for difficult speech passages (low cloze predictability) than for easy passages (high cloze predictability). Recall pe...

Compression of speech signal is an important field in digital signal processing. Because of limited bandwidth in many fields especially in the field of military speech compression has a significant importance in the present world. The other reasons for speech compression are limited transmission and storage capacity. The process of converting human speech signals into encoded representation the...

The fundamental techniques used for man-machine communication include Speech synthesis, speech recognition, and speech transformation. Feature extraction techniques provide a compressed representation of the speech signals. The HNM analyses and synthesis provides high quality speech with less number of parameters. Dynamic time warping is well known technique used for aligning two given multidim...