Abstract This study presents the validation process of a listening test based on communicative language proposed by Bachman (Fundamental considerations in testing, 1990). It was administered to third-grade high school students sixteen Korean Provincial Offices Education for Curriculum and Evaluation September 2012 assess their ability at end learning compare it with standard CSAT (College Schol...

Prediction of Speech Intelligibility (SI) is a topic interest for most speech processing applications, where intelligibility any importance, e.g., coding, transmission and enhancement. Traditionally, SI predictors have been based on signal methods heuristics, but more recently, an increasing number data-driven SI-predictors proposed. Data-driven prediction requires large quantities labelled dat...

In our previous papers, we have proposed join cost functions derived from spectral distances, which have good correlations with perceptual scores obtained for a range of concatenation discontinuities. To further validate their ability to predict concatenation discontinuities, we have chosen the best three spectral distances and evaluated them subjectively in a listening test. The units for synt...

The Voice Conversion Challenge (VCC) 2016, one of the special sessions at Interspeech 2016, deals with the well-known task of speaker identity conversion, referred as Voice Conversion (VC). The objective of the VCC is to compare various VC techniques on identical training and evaluation speech data. The full description of VCC 2016, the motivation, the database, the rules, the participants and ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate listening habits and hearing risks associated with the use of personal listening devices among urban high school students in Malaysia. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. METHODS In total, 177 personal listening device users (13-16 years old) were interviewed to elicit their listening habits (e.g. listening duration, volume setting) and symptoms of hea...

Listening comprehension plays the most crucial role in building communication skills. However, students always think it is challenging to listening lessons. And reason that sometimes they are bored and not interested material. In addition, inappropriate methods techniques may cause lack interest motivation learn. The author conducting research with dictogloss technique overcome difficulties fac...

We report on two listening tests to determine the speech quality of different wideband (WB) speech codecs. In the first test, we have studied various network conditions, including WB–WB and WB–narrowband (WB– NB) tandeming, packet loss, and background noise. In addition to other findings, this test showed some codec quality rank-order changes when compared to the literature. To evaluate the hyp...