The Cued Speech method devised by Cornett (1967) has proven to be a highly effective means of supplementing the information available through speechreading. For example, highly trained deaf receivers of Cued Speech are able to achieve nearly perfect reception of cued conversational sentences (e.g., Nicholls & Ling, 1982; Uchanski et al., 1992). The success of this method, combined with recent a...

This paper presents the virtual speech cuer built in the context of the ARTUS project aiming at watermarking hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence. For deaf televiewers that master cued speech, the animated agent can be then superimposed on demand and at the reception on the original broadcast as an alternative to subtitling. The paper presents...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of bilateral hearing aids (HA) in subjects with mild and moderate-to-severe hearing loss. This study was designed as a within-subject feasibility study. Bilateral HA use was assessed using different laboratory tests on speech reception, listening effort, noise tolerance, and localization. All data were evaluated with bilateral and unilateral H...

A difference of approximately 5 dB exists between the level of spoken English determined using the ANSI standard vu-meter method compared to the common root-mean-square (rms) method. If the rms method is substituted for the present ANSI standard method for calibrating a speech audiometer, for example, the reported speech reception thresholds will improve 5 dB: Speech levels read approximately 5...

Expansion is commonly used to reduce microphone noise and low-level environmental noises that can be annoying to hearing aid users. It may also improve or reduce the perception of low-level speech. This study assessed the impact of two expansion algorithms, single and multiple channel, on speech reception thresholds (SRT) with 10 hearing impaired listeners wearing hearing aids with ADRO process...

OBJECTIVE To report preliminary results of a new closed-skin, transcutaneous bone conduction device (BCD) in 6 children with high-grade ear atresia. SETTINGS Tertiary care center; prospective study; we evaluated the gain with masking of the contralateral ear and the benefit of hearing rehabilitation with the transcutaneous BCD in noise: speech-in-noise tests, conducted in real life condition ...

When speech is in competition with interfering sources in rooms, monaural indicators of intelligibility fail to take account of the listener's abilities to separate target speech from interfering sounds using the binaural system. In order to incorporate these segregation abilities and their susceptibility to reverberation, Lavandier and Culling [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 387-399 (2010)] proposed...