This paper presents a study where a 3D motion-capture animated 'virtual speaker'is
compared to a video of a real speaker with regards to how it facilitates children's speech …

Aim: Seeing a speaker's face facilitates speech recognition, particularly under noisy
conditions. Evidence for how it might affect comprehension of the content of the speech is …

In this paper we evaluate how speaker familiarity influences the engagement times and
performance of blind school children when playing audio games made with different …

In this paper, we evaluate how speaker familiarity influences the engagement times and
performance of blind children and young adults when playing audio games made with …

In the primary school classroom, children are exposed to multiple factors that combine to
create adverse conditions for listening to and understanding what the teacher is saying. Four …

The purpose of the present investigation was to compare children's and adults' identification
of speech in a background of multitalker babble. The question of particular interest was …

Objectives: Visual information from talkers facilitates speech intelligibility for listeners when
audibility is challenged by environmental noise and hearing loss. Less is known about how …

Visual speech cues maximize speech perception for adults in challenging listening
environments: reliance on visual speech increases with greater auditory degradation. Young …

In the primary school classroom, children are exposed to multiple factors that combine to
create adverse conditions for listening to and understanding what the teacher is saying …

Purpose: The goal was to evaluate whether implicit talker familiarization via an interactive
computer game, designed for this study, could improve children's word recognition in …