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Improving alaryngeal speech intelligibility

Journal of Communication Disorders, 1990
Laryngectomized patients using esophageal speech or an electronic artificial larynx have difficulty producing correct voicing contrasts between homorganic consonants. Voicing of a voiceless consonant is the most frequent listener misidentification. A therapy technique is described that emphasizes "pushing harder" on voiceless consonants to improve the ...
J M, Christensen, P E, Dwyer
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Intelligibility of Children’s Speech in Digitized Speech

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2012
The current investigation examined the intelligibility of digitized speech recorded from typically developing child speakers, ages 4, 5, 6, and 7 years, and reproduced on an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device with digitized speech output. The study used a between group design.
Kathryn D R, Drager, Erinn H, Finke
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Everyday-Speech Intelligibility

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1965
We are happy to see J. D. Harris [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 37, 824–830 (1965)] introduce the phrase “everyday speech” into the speech-intelligibility controversy. The controversy in this case is whether the pure-tone sensitivity at 500, 1000, and 2000 cps or at 1000, 2000, and 3000 cps should be used to predict the intelligibility of “everyday speech.”
J. C. Webster, Hallowell Davis, W. Dixon Ward   +2 more
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Speech intelligibility enhancement

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1988
In a communications system, consonant high frequency sounds are enhanced: the greater the high frequency content relative to the low, the more such high frequency content is boosted.
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Intelligibility Measures of Dysarthric Speech

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1964
Ten dysarthric and 10 matched normal speakers recorded three word lists (50 CNC’s, 60 Clusters, and 50 Spondees). Intelligibility scores were obtained for lists, order of presentation, list by order of presentation, and lists and order of presentation combined.
R S, TIKOFSKY, R P, TIKOFSKY
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Auditory and cognitive aging: Differences between speech intelligibility and speech-in-speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016
Older adults, even those with normal or near-normal audiograms, report greater subjective listening difficulty in everyday life compared to younger adults. However, their difficulties are not well predicted from pure-tone or speech audiometry in quiet or noise.
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Interaural alternation and speech intelligibility

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1974
The intelligibility of interaurally alternated speech was measured by two methods: shadowing and subjective estimation. A passage of connected discourse was recorded at two speaking rates, normal (135 wpm) and fast (194 wpm). Shadowing scores and estimations of intelligibility for normal-rate speech were nearly 100% at eight rates of alternation ...
C, Speaks, T T, Trooien
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EEG can predict speech intelligibility

Journal of Neural Engineering, 2019
Speech signals have a remarkable ability to entrain brain activity to the rapid fluctuations of speech sounds. For instance, one can readily measure a correlation of the sound amplitude with the evoked responses of the electroencephalogram (EEG), and the strength of this correlation is indicative of whether the listener is attending to the speech.
Ivan Iotzov, Lucas C Parra
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The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2003
This study investigated how native language background influences the intelligibility of speech by non-native talkers for non-native listeners from either the same or a different native language background as the talker. Native talkers of Chinese (n=2), Korean (n=2), and English (n=1) were recorded reading simple English sentences.
Tessa, Bent, Ann R, Bradlow
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Speech intelligibility assessment in a helium environment. II. The speech intelligibility index

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1998
The Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) was measured for Navy divers participating in two saturation deep dives and for a group of nondivers to test different communication systems and their components. These SIIs were validated using the Speech Perception in Noise (SPIN) test and the Griffiths version of the Modified Rhyme Test (GMRT).
L L, Mendel, B W, Hamill, J E, Hendrix, L J, Crepeau, J D, Pelton, M D, Miley, E E, Kadlec   +6 more
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