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Making information accessible for people with aphasia in healthcare

Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation, 2022
People with aphasia are often unable to access healthcare due to difficulties understanding and using spoken and written language, which impacts every step of their healthcare journey and outcomes.
Simon Grobler, Sarah Casey, Elizabeth Farrell   +2 more
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Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis [PDF]

Interspeech, 2017
A text-to-speech synthesis system typically consists of multiple stages, such as a text analysis frontend, an acoustic model and an audio synthesis module. Building these components often requires extensive domain expertise and may contain brittle design
Yuxuan Wang, R. Skerry-Ryan, Daisy Stanton, Yonghui Wu, Ron J. Weiss, N. Jaitly, Zongheng Yang, Y. Xiao, Z. Chen, Samy Bengio, Quoc V. Le, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, R. Clark, R. Saurous   +13 more
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The Persian Vowel Formant structure of students with Normal, Moderate and severe Hearing Loss aged 15-18 years in Esfahan

مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2008
• Background:Formant structure is one of the most important acoustic characteristics of Sounds.We can differentiate Vowels according to their first three Formants.
A Bahrami, J Pourgharib, F Torabinejad, K Kamali, F Salehi   +4 more
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ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit [PDF]

Interspeech, 2018
This paper introduces a new open source platform for end-to-end speech processing named ESPnet. ESPnet mainly focuses on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR), and adopts widely-used dynamic neural network toolkits, Chainer and PyTorch, as a main
Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Shigeki Karita, Tomoki Hayashi, Jiro Nishitoba, Y. Unno, Nelson Yalta, Jahn Heymann, Matthew Wiesner, Nanxin Chen, Adithya Renduchintala, Tsubasa Ochiai   +11 more
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Teaching Speech Acts [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2007
In this paper I argue that pragmatic ability must become part of what we teach in the classroom if we are to realize the goals of communicative competence for our students.
Teaching Speech Acts
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The relationship between visual memory of non-words and accuracy and rate reading among female first-graders living in Isfahan-Iran

مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2011
Introduction: Reading accuracy depends on such skills as normal hearing, auditory perception, auditory memory, normal visual perception and visual memory. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between two reading skills, namely accuracy
Nahid Baharlooie, Saghar GHolami, Maede SHariat, Mitra Nikzad   +3 more
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The relationship between acceptable noise level and electrophysiologic auditory brainstem and cortical signal to noise ratios

Audiology Research, 2014
The following objectives of the study were formulated: i) to investigate differences in measured signal to noise ratios while recording speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (cABR) and cortical late latency response (LLR) in low and high acceptable ...
Hemanth N. Shetty, Sankalapa Mahadev, Devamma Veeresh   +2 more
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Determining attributed factors of hearing handicap in individuals with auditory sensory and neural pathology

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2022
Introduction: There is a modest relationship between speech perception skills and perceived hearing handicap in individuals with hearing loss. In this study, an attempt is made at linking psychoacoustic results and speech perception skills to understand ...
Sindhu Parthasarathy, Hemanth Narayan Shetty   +1 more
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Assessing pragmatic abilities in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2022
The aim of the study was to explore pragmatic skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Six children with ASD between ages 3 to 8 years were chosen as the participants.
Mudra Dudwadkar, Bhavani Venkatachalam, Yasha Chheda , Vrushali Shinde , Ankita Kale , Brajesh Priyadarshi   +5 more
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Seasonality sway birth and hearing loss?

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2017
Background Birth is a biological process that involves the emergence of an offspring. A seasonal variation in the frequency of births is reported as a universal phenomenon in the human population.
Teja D. Dessai, Henna Ashraf, Chinju Michael   +2 more
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