The perceptual significance of high-frequency energy in the human voice

BB Monson, EJ Hunter, AJ Lotto, BH Story - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
While human vocalizations generate acoustical energy at frequencies up to (and beyond) 20
kHz, the energy at frequencies above about 5 kHz has traditionally been neglected in …

Extended high frequencies provide both spectral and temporal information to improve speech-in-speech recognition

A Trine, BB Monson - Trends in Hearing, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Several studies have demonstrated that extended high frequencies (EHFs;> 8 kHz) in
speech are not only audible but also have some utility for speech recognition, including for …

Ecological cocktail party listening reveals the utility of extended high-frequency hearing

BB Monson, J Rock, A Schulz, E Hoffman, E Buss - Hearing Research, 2019 - Elsevier
A fundamental principle of neuroscience is that each species' and individual's sensory
systems are tailored to meet the demands placed upon them by their environments and …

Improved speech intelligibility in subjects with stable sensorineural hearing loss following intratympanic dosing of FX-322 in a phase 1b study

WJ McLean, AS Hinton, JTJ Herby, AN Salt… - Otology & …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: There are no approved pharmacologic therapies for chronic sensorineural
hearing loss (SNHL). The combination of CHIR99021+ valproic acid (CV, FX-322) has been …

NHSS: A speech and singing parallel database

B Sharma, X Gao, K Vijayan, X Tian, H Li - Speech Communication, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a database of parallel recordings of speech and singing, collected and released
by the Human Language Technology (HLT) laboratory at the National University of …

The importance of extended high-frequency speech information in the recognition of digits, words, and sentences in quiet and noise

S Polspoel, SE Kramer, B van Dijk, C Smits - Ear and hearing, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: In pure-tone audiometry, hearing thresholds are typically measured up to 8 kHz.
Recent research has shown that extended high-frequency (EHF; frequencies> 8 kHz) …

Questionable sound exposure outside of the womb: frequency analysis of environmental noise in the neonatal intensive care unit

A Lahav - Acta paediatrica, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Recent research raises concerns about the adverse effects of noise exposure on the
developing preterm infant. However, current guidelines for NICU noise remain focused on …

Extended high-frequency hearing and head orientation cues benefit children during speech-in-speech recognition

M Flaherty, K Libert, BB Monson - Hearing Research, 2021 - Elsevier
While the audible frequency range for humans spans approximately 20 Hz to 20 kHz,
children display enhanced sensitivity relative to adults when detecting extended high …

Dimension-selective attention as a possible driver of dynamic, context-dependent re-weighting in speech processing

LL Holt, AT Tierney, G Guerra, A Laffere, F Dick - Hearing research, 2018 - Elsevier
The contribution of acoustic dimensions to an auditory percept is dynamically adjusted and
reweighted based on prior experience about how informative these dimensions are across …

[HTML][HTML] Phoneme categorization relying solely on high-frequency energy

AD Vitela, BB Monson, AJ Lotto - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Speech perception studies generally focus on the acoustic information present in the
frequency regions below 6 kHz. Recent evidence suggests that there is perceptually …