Clear speech variants: An acoustic study in Parkinson's disease

J Lam, K Tjaden - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016 - ASHA
Purpose The authors investigated how different variants of clear speech affect segmental
and suprasegmental acoustic measures of speech in speakers with Parkinson's disease and …

The role of vowel and consonant fundamental frequency, envelope, and temporal fine structure cues to the intelligibility of words and sentences

D Fogerty, LE Humes - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The role of vowel and consonant fundamental frequency, envelope, and temporal fine structure
cues to the intelligibility of words and sentencesa) | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …

Speech recognition in natural background noise

J Meyer, L Dentel, F Meunier - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
In the real world, human speech recognition nearly always involves listening in background
noise. The impact of such noise on speech signals and on intelligibility performance …

Is electrode-modiolus distance a prognostic factor for hearing performances after cochlear implant surgery?

GN Esquia Medina, S Borel, Y Nguyen… - Audiology and …, 2013 - karger.com
The aim of this study was to evaluate electrode array position in relation to cochlear anatomy
and its influence on hearing performance in cochlear implantees. Twenty-two patients (25 …

[PDF][PDF] Pronunciation problems: Acoustic analysis of the English vowels produced by Sudanese learners of English

EMT Ali - International Journal of English and Literature, 2013 - academicjournals.org
The purpose of this study is to provide experimental evidence for certain linguistic causes of
production errors of English spoken with Sudanese Arabic accent. The subjects of the study …

The relative importance of consonant and vowel segments to the recognition of words and sentences: Effects of age and hearing loss

D Fogerty, D Kewley-Port, LE Humes - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigated the ability to use cues contained within vowel and consonant
segments by older listeners with normal or impaired hearing. Spectral shaping restored …

Neural indices of phonemic discrimination and sentence-level speech intelligibility in quiet and noise: A mismatch negativity study

TK Koerner, Y Zhang, PB Nelson, B Wang, H Zou - Hearing Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Successful speech communication requires the extraction of important acoustic cues from
irrelevant background noise. In order to better understand this process, this study examined …

Neural indices of phonemic discrimination and sentence-level speech intelligibility in quiet and noise: A P3 study

TK Koerner, Y Zhang, PB Nelson, B Wang, H Zou - Hearing research, 2017 - Elsevier
This study examined how speech babble noise differentially affected the auditory P3
responses and the associated neural oscillatory activities for consonant and vowel …

Visual cues contribute differentially to audiovisual perception of consonants and vowels in improving recognition and reducing cognitive demands in listeners with …

S Moradi, B Lidestam, H Danielsson, EHN Ng… - Journal of Speech …, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose We sought to examine the contribution of visual cues in audiovisual identification of
consonants and vowels—in terms of isolation points (the shortest time required for correct …

[PDF][PDF] Problematic Arabic consonants for native English speakers: Learners' perspectives

A Shehata - The International Journal of Educational …, 2015 - researchgate.net
This paper examines the awareness and perceptions of 107 adult native English speakers
residing in the US regarding the importance and difficulty of Arabic consonant phonemes in …