Speech comprehension is severely compromised when several people talk at once, due to
limited perceptual and cognitive resources. In such circumstances, top-down attention …

The number of older adults is increasing globally. Aging is associated with cognitive and
sensory decline. Additionally, declined auditory performance and cognitive function affect …

When faced with situations where many people talk at once, individuals can employ different
listening strategies to deal with the cacophony of speech sounds and to achieve different …

Serialized Output Training (SOT) has showcased state-of-the-art performance in multi-talker
speech recognition by sequentially decoding the speech of individual speakers. To address …

A vital and comprehensive starting place for understanding the key concepts, this book
explores 177 diverse types and styles of listening named in academic scholarship to date …

In the cocktail party situation, people with normal hearing usually follow a single speaker
among multiple concurrent ones. However, there is no agreement in the literature as to …

This paper investigates the possibility of extracting a target sentence from multi-talker
speech using only a keyword as input. For example, in social security applications, the …

Speech comprehension is severely compromised when several people talk at once, due to
limited perceptual and cognitive resources. Under some circumstances listeners can employ …

Real-life listening situations often require the listener to process speech in the presence of
other, concurrent speech streams. The so-called cocktail party problem is frequently …