The Tonal and Speech Materials for Auditory Perceptual Assessment, Disc 1.0 audio compact disc contains a set of consonant, vowel-nucleus, consonant speech materials that have been segmented at the approximate phoneme boundaries so that the carrier phrase and consonant segments of a word can be presented to one ear and the carrier phrase and vowel segment of the word presented to the other ear....

In previous infant studies on statistics-based word segmentation, the unit of statistical computation was always aligned with the syllabic edge, which had a consonant onset. The current study addressed whether the learning system imposes a constraint that favors word forms beginning with a consonant onset over those beginning with an onsetless sub-syllable, by examining infants' segmentation of...

In speech rhythm analysis, it is important to localize the perceptual center (P-center) of syllables in order to establish a basis for measuring syllabic duration. P-center research has focused primarily on Germanic languages, for which syllables tend to begin with multiple consonants. In Cantonese, the syllable-initial position contains no more than one consonant, making it less prone to durat...

The consonant recognition of 17 ears with sensorineural hearing loss is evaluated for 14 consonants /p, t, k, f, s, ∫, b, d, g, v, z, 3, m, n/+/a/, under four speech-weighted noise conditions (0, 6, 12 dB SNR, quiet). One male and one female talker were chosen for each consonant, resulting in 28 total consonant-vowel test tokens. For a given consonant, tokens by different talkers were observed ...

In three experiments, listeners detected vowel or consonant targets in lists of CV syllables constructed from five vowels and five consonants. Responses were faster in a predictable context (e.g., listening for a vowel target in a list of syllables all beginning with the same consonant) than in an unpredictable context (e.g., listening for a vowel target in a list of syllables beginning with di...

The performance of speech enhancement algorithms deteriorates rapidly with decreasing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). At a low SNR, high intensity phonemes such as vowels are therefore more likely to be enhanced than low intensity speech segments such as many consonants. Although the selective enhancement of vowels enhances transitional cues for consonant recognition, it simultaneously degrades re...

Intelligibility of conversationally produced speech for normal hearing listeners was studied for three male and three female talkers. Four typical listening environments were used. These simulated a quiet living room, a classroom, and social events in two settings with different reverberation characteristics. For each talker, overall intelligibility and intelligibility for vowels, consonant voi...

6 (Received 4 October 2012; revised 4 March 2013; accepted 23 April 2013) 7 8 The consonant recognition of 17 ears with sensorineural hearing loss is evaluated for 14 consonants 9 /p, t, k, f, s, Ð , b, d, g, v, z, Z, m, n=þ =A=, under four speech-weighted noise conditions (0, 6, 10 12 dB SNR, quiet). One male and one female talker were chosen for each consonant, resulting in 28 11 total conson...

In Southeast Tibet, some Tibeto-Burman languages have apparent retroflex feature floating. Some initial research on this phenomenon shows that different sound categories, such as a post consonant r and vowels (or finals), are not totally independent. This is likely the result of evolution one category toward another, mechanism recombination between basic consonant. approach can be applied to st...

PURPOSE To quantify the articulatory distinctiveness of 8 major English vowels and 11 English consonants based on tongue and lip movement time series data using a data-driven approach. METHOD Tongue and lip movements of 8 vowels and 11 consonants from 10 healthy talkers were collected. First, classification accuracies were obtained using 2 complementary approaches: (a) Procrustes analysis and...