Extended high frequency hearing and speech perception implications in adults and children

LL Hunter, BB Monson, DR Moore, S Dhar, BA Wright… - Hearing research, 2020 - Elsevier
Extended high frequencies (EHF), above 8 kHz, represent a region of the human hearing
spectrum that is generally ignored by clinicians and researchers alike. This article is a …

Acoustic voice characteristics with and without wearing a facemask

DD Nguyen, P McCabe, D Thomas, A Purcell… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Facemasks are essential for healthcare workers but characteristics of the voice whilst
wearing this personal protective equipment are not well understood. In the present study, we …

Extending the high-frequency bandwidth and predicting speech-in-noise recognition: building on the work of Pat Stelmachowicz

BB Monson, A Trine - Seminars in Hearing, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Recent work has demonstrated that high-frequency (> 6 kHz) and extended high-frequency
(EHF;> 8 kHz) hearing is valuable for speech-in-noise recognition. Several studies also …

Classification of indexical and segmental features of human speech using low-and high-frequency energy

JJ Donai, DD Paschall, S Haider - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The high-frequency region (above 4–5 kHz) of the speech spectrum has received
substantial research attention over the previous decade, with a host of studies documenting …

Gender identification using high-frequency speech energy: Effects of increasing the low-frequency limit

JJ Donai, RM Halbritter - Ear and hearing, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of normal-hearing listeners
to use high-frequency energy for gender identification from naturally produced speech …

Voice Frequency-based Gender Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network for Smart Home

N Nasaruddin, MAP Pratama, MK Muchamad… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The smart home's functional requirements should include the capability to differentiate
between various user categories, such as gender and voice recognition. The data-driven …

Gender identification from high-pass filtered vowel segments: The use of high-frequency energy

JJ Donai, NJ Lass - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2015 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of high-frequency information for making
gender identity judgments from high-pass filtered vowel segments produced by adult …

Effects of signal bandwidth and noise on individual speaker identification

JC Schwartz, AT Whyte, M Al-Nuaimi… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of increasing spectral bandwidth
from 3 to 10 kHz on individual speaker recognition in noisy conditions (+ 5, 0, and− 5 dB …

Effects of signal bandwidth on listening effort in young-and middle-aged adults

JL Cramer, JJ Donai - International Journal of Audiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of signal bandwidth, noise and
signal predictability on listening effort among younger and middle-aged individuals with …

[HTML][HTML] Tribute to Patricia Stelmachowicz: Extending the High-Frequency Bandwidth and Predicting Speech-in-Noise Recognition: Building on the Work of Pat …

BB Monson, A Trine - Seminars in Hearing, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent work has demonstrated that high-frequency (> 6 kHz) and extended high-frequency
(EHF;> 8 kHz) hearing is valuable for speech-in-noise recognition. Several studies also …