Manual Cued Speech is an effective method used to enhance speech perception for hearing-impaired people. Thanks to this system, a speaker can clarify what has been said with the help of hand gestures. Seeing manual cues associated to lip shapes allows the cue receiver to identify speech elements unambiguously. A large amount of work has been devoted to Cued Speech effectiveness in visual identi...

Manual Cued Speech is an effective method used to enhance speech perception for deaf and hearing-impaired people. Thanks to this system, a speaker can disambiguate similar lip shapes by the addition of a manual cue near the face. While Cued Speech effectiveness for language acquisition is well-known, very few works aimed at investigating the temporal organization of Cued Speech production, i.e....

Speech is the most natural communication mean for humans. However, in situations where audio speech is not available or cannot be perceived because of disabilities or adverse environmental conditions, people may resort to alternative methods such as augmented speech. Augmented speech is audio speech supplemented or replaced by other modalities, such as audiovisual speech, or Cued Speech. Cued S...

BACKGROUND The use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. Parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. Cued Speech is a very new approach to Persian speaking pupils. Our aim was to develop a useful website to give related...

OBJECTIVE Verify if late cochlear implantation allows pre-lingual deafs to convert from visual to oral communication mode only. METHOD Thirteen pre-lingual profoundly deaf patients implanted the ages of 8 and 22 years were included in the study. Before cochlear implantation, none of the patients used the oral language. Six patients used cued speech and seven used the sign language to communic...

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...

Objectives: This paper studies the effect of Persian Cued Speech on the perception of Persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. Cued Speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. And it is shown that it effectively ca...

This paper discusses the cued speech recognition methods in videoconference. Cued speech is a specific gesture language that is used for communication between deaf people. We define the criteria for sentence intelligibility according to answers of testing subjects (deaf people). In our tests we use 30 sample videos coded by H.264 codec with various bit-rates and various speed of cued speech. Ad...

As part of the THIMP project (Telephony for HearingIMpaired People), we aim at automatically analyzing Cued Speech [1] and translating it into oral spoken language. This work focuses on vowel classification and will be part of this transcoding process as a preprocessing step of the input data analysis. Its objective is to identify vowels produced by a speaker pronouncing and coding in Cued Spee...