Speech processing technology has great potential in the medical field to provide beneficial solutions for both patients and doctors. interfaces, represented by speech synthesis recognition, can be used transcribe documents, control devices, correct hearing impairments, assist visually impaired. However, it is essential predict prosody phrase boundaries accurate natural synthesis. This study pro...

Impaired perception of consonants by poor readers is reflected in poor subcortical encoding of speech timing and harmonics. We assessed auditory brainstem representation of higher harmonics within a consonant-vowel formant transition to identify relationships between speech fine structure and reading. Responses were analyzed in three ways: a single stimulus polarity, adding responses to inverte...

Voice over IP is gaining increased momentum with the wide deployment of data networks and the desirability to bundle voice and data services over the same media. Central to the success of this concept is the underlying quality of speech, which is function of the coding schemes used, and the effectiveness of mitigating the effects of such impairments as packet loss, delay, jitter, echo, noise an...

This study used eye-tracking methodology to assess audiovisual speech perception in 26 children ranging in age from 5 to 15 years, half with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and half with typical development. Given the characteristic reduction in gaze to the faces of others in children with ASD, it was hypothesized that they would show reduced influence of visual information on heard speech. Res...

Articulation-based silent speech interfaces convert silently produced speech movements into audible words. These systems are still in their experimental stages, but have significant potential for facilitating oral communication in persons with laryngectomy or speech impairments. In this paper, we report the result of a novel, real-time algorithm that recognizes wholewords based on articulatory ...

The current study examined features of speech addressed to younger versus older and impaired versus normal listeners and explored factors that might motivate speech modification in the therapeutic register. Ten speech-language clinicians in training were engaged in a simulated storytelling task and produced narrations to four imaginary listener groups. Results revealed that clinicians modified ...

We compared brain structure and function in two subgroups of 21 stroke patients with either moderate or severe chronic speech comprehension impairment. Both groups had damage to the supratemporal plane; however, the severe group suffered greater damage to two unimodal auditory areas: primary auditory cortex and the planum temporale. The effects of this damage were investigated using fMRI while ...

Text-to-speech technology has been broadly used to help people with voice disabilities to overcome their difficulties. With text-to-speech, a person types at a keyboard, the text is synthesized, and the sound comes out through the computer speakers. In recent years, Voice over IP (VoIP) applications have become very popular and have been used by people worldwide. These applications allow people...

There is considerable neurobiological evidence suggesting that schizophrenia is associated with reduced corticocortical connectivity. The authors describe two neural network computer simulations that explore functional consequences of these abnormalities. The first utilized an "attractor" neural network capable of content-addressable memory. Application of a pruning rule that eliminated weaker ...

The article presents the results of analysis problem creativity and creative work in children with disabilities having different impairments. This research serves as a basis for conducting separate study aimed at researching peculiarities search solutions process completing figure drawings younger schoolchildren hearing impairments compared to their peers normal hearing. For this purpose, compa...