The SUN-test (Speech Understanding in Noise) is a speech-in-noise test to screen adults and older adults for hearing disability. The SUN-test consists in a short list of intervocalic consonants (VCV, vowel-consonant-vowel) in noise that are presented in a three-alternatives forced choice (3AFC) paradigm by means of a touch-screen interface. Based on the number of stimuli correctly identified, t...

Synopsis Sensorineural hearing loss, is associated with increased forward and backward masking of weak acoustic sub-segments by strong ones, thereby degrading the reception of important cues for identification of consonants. Employment of inter-aural switching, by splitting the speech temporally and presenting alternate segments to the two ears may help in reducing the effect of temporal maskin...

Background: Vocal abuse and misuse would result in vocal fold polyp. Certain features define the extent of vocal folds polyp effects on voice acoustic parameters. The present study aimed to define the effects of polyp size on acoustic voice parameters, and compare these parameters in hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic polyps.Methods: In the present retrospective study, 28 individuals with hemorrha...

The role of fricative context on vowel recognition in a series of FV syllables being part of natural Spanish words is investigated. Perceptual tests were carried out to assess the recognition of vowels in fricative context, in two conditions: 1) Isolated vowel; 2) Fricative noise + vowel. Analysis of results show that adding the fricative noise improves the recognition of the vowel, while the a...

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND DISORDERS • Volume 28 • 20–29 • Spring 2001 © NSSLHA 1092-5171/01/2801-0020 ABSTRACT: Spoken word recognition was investigated in a group of children aged 3:0 to 7:11 (years:months) to assess the relationship between five measures of language development and spoken word recognition accuracy. Two spoken word recognition tasks, gated words and nois...

The speech signal is modeled using zerocrossing interval distribution of the signal in time domain. The distributions of these parameters are studied over five Malayalam (one of the most popular Indian language) vowels. We found that the distribution patterns are almost similar for repeated utterances of the same vowel and varies from vowel to vowel. These distribution patterns are used for rec...

The purpese of the experiments reported was to establish a scale of hearing thresholds and intelligibility thresholds for Croatian sounds. The test material for the experiments consisted of all possible CV-type syllables. The result of the experiments show that the hearing thresholds depend on the vocalic syllable nucleus. The paradox is that the intelligibility thresholds for consonants are no...