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Tactile modulation of emotional speech samples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Copyright © 2012 Katri Salminen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly ...
Ahmaniemi, Teemu   +7 more
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Aging and Speech-on-Speech Masking

open access: yesEar & Hearing, 2008
A common complaint of many older adults is difficulty communicating in situations where they must focus on one talker in the presence of other people speaking. In listening environments containing multiple talkers, age-related changes may be caused by increased sensitivity to energetic masking, increased susceptibility to informational masking (e.g ...
Helfer, Karen S, Freyman, Richard L.
openaire   +3 more sources

Cepstral analysis based on the Glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this paper we introduce a new cepstral coefficient extraction method based on an intelligibility measure for speech in noise, the Glimpse Proportion measure.
King, S.   +4 more
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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

open access: yesمجله 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining 'Speech': Subtraction, Addition, and Division [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In free speech theory ‘speech’ has to be defined as a special term of art. I argue that much free speech discourse comes with a tacit commitment to a ‘Subtractive Approach’ to defining speech.
Simpson, Robert Mark
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The relationship between acceptable noise level and electrophysiologic auditory brainstem and cortical signal to noise ratios

open access: yesAudiology 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching Speech Acts [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj  

The Persian Vowel Formant structure of students with Normal, Moderate and severe Hearing Loss aged 15-18 years in Esfahan

open access: yesمجله 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   +4 more
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Determining attributed factors of hearing handicap in individuals with auditory sensory and neural pathology

open access: yesBrazilian 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   +1 more
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Using the beat histogram for speech rhythm description and language identification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper we present a novel approach for the description of speech rhythm and the extraction of rhythm-related features for automatic language identification (LID).
Lykartsis, Athanasios, Weinzierl, Stefan
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