Despite advances in engineering noise controls and the use of administrative controls, miners are still dependent on hearing protection devices for prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. However, miners often raise concerns about the audibility of spoken communication when wearing conventional hearing protectors. Electronic technologies that selectively process and restore sounds from outsid...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of classroom placement and mode of communication on speech intelligibility scores in children aged 8 to 9 years using multichannel cochlear implants. DESIGN Classroom placement (special education, partial mainstream, and full mainstream) and mode of communication (total communication and auditory-oral) reported via parental rating scales before and 4 times afte...

In adverse listening conditions, talkers can increase their intelligibility by speaking clearly [Picheny, M.A., et al. (1985). J. Speech Hear. Res. 28, 96-103; Payton, K. L., et al. (1994). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 1581-1592]. This modified speaking style, known as clear speech, is typically spoken more slowly than conversational speech [Picheny, M. A., et al. (1986). J. Speech Hear. Res. 29, 43...

In studying speech intelligibility in traffic noise, I was able to reproduce a sound field with considerable reality by reproducing both speech and traffic noises by the speaker method using a CD. As a result, the following conclusions were reached. 1) The influence of noise on speech intelligibility is similar for the single syllable and adult disyllable in normal persons. 2) The influence of ...

Non-binary people exist in a world which the conditions for their existence are foreclosed by dominant cultural frames, human can only be understood through membership of one two binary gender categories male and female. This article explores ways that non-binary participants articulated experiences identification Butler’s concept (un)intelligibility Hale’s idea gender’s border-zones. The withi...

Current interactive systems that rely on machine learning techniques have little, if any, support for intelligibility. That is, users are unable to ask why a machine learning system made a particular prediction or classification, or why it suggested a particular action be taken. In our work, we look at the need for intelligibility in machine learning (and other complex) systems, and mechanisms ...

The STI (speech transmission index) and SII (speech intelligibility index) are the two primary objective rating metrics for speech intelligibility. The differences between their calculation models and measured data are examined in this study, and the results show that there is no fundamental difference between them, except those caused due to the different calculation models. Therefore, both ST...