Analogue to occupational noise-induced hearing loss, MP3-induced hearing loss may be evolving into a significant social and public health problem. To inform prevention strategies and interventions, this study investigated correlates of adolescents' risky MP3-player listening behavior primarily informed by protection motivation theory. We invited 1687 adolescents (12- to 19-year old) of Dutch se...

1. MOTIVATION • Human listeners are much better at recognizing speech in noise than automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems – Understanding why could directly improve ASR noise robustness • We utilize the recently introduced “auditory bubbles” technique to compare the cues used by humans and ASRs (Mandel, 2013; Mandel et al., 2014) 1. Measure the intelligibility to listeners of the same spee...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

This study aims to analyze research articles on the topic of metacognitive listening strategies published in 2016-2019. The type used is descriptive content analysis. sample this 7 from national and international journals field learning teaching English as a foreign language (English Foreign Language). article was analyzed terms methods, target population, selection number samples, data collect...

The study investigated the impact of different types of clear speech on speech perception in an adverse listening condition. Tokens were extracted from spontaneous speech dialogues in which participants completed a problem-solving task in good listening conditions or while experiencing a one-sided ‘communication barrier’: a real-time vocoder or multibabble noise. These two adverse conditions in...

This paper presents a system that makes use of machine listening techniques to analyse an incoming musical audio signal and determine various musical properties such as dynamics, tempo, and style. With this knowledge, the system generates an expressive drumbeat to accompany the input audio signal in real time. These drumbeats are created with a set of genetic algorithms which are designed to mo...

This research aimed to reveal students' internal and external difficulties in dealing with listening comprehension tests. The was conducted the English Language Education Department at a private university Batam. total of participants 32 students, including second third-year students. data were analysed through mix-method, using three different instruments: questionnaire, test an interview coll...

as the main part of a large-scale project, the present study investigated the relationship among reflective thinking, listening anxiety, and listening comprehension of iranian efl learners with regard to their proficiency level. to this end, 223 (106 intermediate and 117 advanced) adult male and female iranian efl learners from a private language institute took part in the study by completing t...