How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same
time? This review summarizes widespread research in psychoacoustics, auditory scene …

Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where
intelligibility might be compromised–at least for some listeners–by adverse conditions …

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between scaled speech
intelligibility and selected acoustic variables in persons with dysarthria. Control speakers …

Three experiments examined acoustic and perceptual characteristics of the speech of gay;
Lesbian; Bisexual (GLB) and heterosexual people. Experiment 1 examined the acoustic …

Millions of people engage in spoken interactions with voice activated artificially intelligent
(voice-AI) systems in their everyday lives. This study explores whether speakers have a …

Just as poor pronunciation can make a foreign language learner very difficult to understand,
poor prosodic and intonational skills can have an equally devastating effect on …

What makes speech produced in the presence of noise (Lombard speech) more intelligible
than conversational speech produced in quiet conditions? This study investigates the …

This paper investigates the acoustic properties of speech used by infant listeners to discover
clauses in continuous speech. In a series of experiments using the Headturn Preference …

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 …

Purpose Given the potential significance of speech naturalness to functional and social
rehabilitation outcomes, the objective of this study was to examine the effect of listener …