This study investigated age-related differences in sensitivity to temporal cues in modified natural speech sounds. Listeners included young noise-masked subjects, elderly normal-hearing subjects, and elderly hearing-impaired subjects. Four speech continua were presented to listeners, with stimuli from each continuum varying in a single temporal dimension. The acoustic cues varied in separate co...

The present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. Their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...

Embedding a secret message into a cover media without attracting any attention is known as steganography. Steganography is one of the methods used for hidden communication purposes. One of the cover media that can be used for steganography is speech. All the methods that we have found for audio steganography, changes the values of maximum number of samples from the audio signal. Usually change ...

The aim of this work is to develop an effective speaker recognition system under noisy environments for large data sets. important phases involved in typical identification systems are feature extraction, training and testing. During the extraction phase, speaker-specific information processed based on characteristics voice signal. Effective methods have been proposed silence removal order achi...

Introduction: Use of patient-based voice assessment scales is an appropriate method that is frequently used to demonstrate effectiveness of voice therapy. This study was aimed at determining the effectiveness ofvoice therapy among patients with secondary muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) and vocal mass lesions.   Materials and Methods: The study design was prospective, with within-participant repe...

UNLABELLED Cochlear implants may improve the medical and social prognosis of profound deafness. Nevertheless, some patients have experienced poor results without any clear explanations. One correlate may be an alteration in cortical voice processing. To test this hypothesis, we studied the activation of human temporal voice areas (TVA) using a well-standardized PET paradigm adapted from previou...

Purpose The aim of this study is to explore and unpack the notion lateral voice within context a Chinese hospital. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative design was used, involving interviews 24 medical personnel from public hospital in mainland China. This included two focus groups (eight participants each) physicians nurses, eight individual with managers, including chief nurse directors c...