The effect of hearing protection devices on speech intelligibility of Persian employees [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2020 Objective This study aimed to investigate the effect of hearing protection devices (HPDs) on speech intelligibility in Persian work environments. Three current earmuffs and three earplugs and one of the prototypes of molded earplug were tested on 15 male
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An automatic measure for speech intelligibility in dysarthrias—validation across multiple languages and neurological disorders [PDF]
Frontiers in Digital HealthIntroductionDysarthria, a motor speech disorder caused by muscle weakness or paralysis, severely impacts speech intelligibility and quality of life.
Johannes Tröger +12 more
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Syllable-rate-adjusted-modulation (SRAM) predicts clear and conversational speech intelligibility [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIntroductionObjectively predicting speech intelligibility is important in both telecommunication and human-machine interaction systems. The classic method relies on signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) to successfully predict speech intelligibility.
Ye Yang, Fan-Gang Zeng, Fan-Gang Zeng
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Sensory representations and pupil-indexed listening effort provide complementary contributions to multi-talker speech intelligibility [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMulti-talker speech intelligibility requires successful separation of the target speech from background speech. Successful speech segregation relies on bottom-up neural coding fidelity of sensory information and top-down effortful listening.
Jacie R. McHaney +3 more
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Checkerboard speech vs interrupted speech: Effects of spectrotemporal segmentation on intelligibility [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 The intelligibility of interrupted speech (interrupted over time) and checkerboard speech (interrupted over time-by-frequency), both of which retained a half of the original speech, was examined.
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Auditory prostheses provide an opportunity for rehabilitation of hearing-impaired patients. Speech intelligibility can be used to estimate the extent to which the auditory prosthesis improves the user’s speech comprehension.
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Automated Assessment of Word- and Sentence-Level Speech Intelligibility in Developmental Motor Speech Disorders: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Micalle Carl, Michal Icht
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NeuroImage, 2023 Humans have the unique ability to decode the rapid stream of language elements that constitute speech, even when it is contaminated by noise. Two reliable observations about noisy speech perception are that seeing the face of the talker improves ...
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Brain Sciences, 2021 The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a widely used, efficient tool for describing a child’s speech intelligibility. Few studies have explored the relationship between ICS scores and transcription intelligibility scores, which are the gold ...
Jennifer U. Soriano +2 more
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Neural Entrainment to Speech Modulates Speech Intelligibility [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Speech is crucial for communication in everyday life. Speech-brain entrainment, the alignment of neural activity to the slow temporal fluctuations (envelope) of acoustic speech input, is a ubiquitous element of current theories of speech processing. Associations between speech-brain entrainment and acoustic speech signal, listening task, and speech ...
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