Values of the speech intelligibility index (SII) were found to be different for the same speech intelligibility performance measured in an acoustic perception jury test with 35 human subjects and different background noise spectra. Using a novel method for in-vehicle speech intelligibility evaluation, the human subjects were tested using the hearing-in-noise-test (HINT) in a simulated driving environment. A variety of driving and listening conditions were used to obtain 50% speech intelligibility score at the sentence Speech Reception Threshold (sSRT). In previous studies, the band importance function for average speech was used for SII calculations since the band importance function for the HINT is unavailable in the SII ANSI S3.5-1997 standard. In this study, the HINT jury test measurements from a variety of background noise spectra and listening configurations of talker and listener are used in an effort to obtain a band importance function for the HINT, to potentially correlate the ...

article{8623633, abstract = {When making phone calls, cellphone and smartphone users are exposed to radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and sound pressure simultaneously. Speech intelligibility during mobile phone calls is related to the sound pressure level of speech relative to potential background sounds and also to the RF-EMF exposure, since the signal quality is correlated with the RF-EMF strength. Additionally, speech intelligibility, sound pressure level, and exposure to RF-EMFs are dependent on how the call is made (on speaker, held at the ear, or with headsets). The relationship between speech intelligibility, sound exposure, and exposure to RF-EMFs is determined in this study. To this aim, the transmitted RF-EMF power was recorded during phone calls made by 53 subjects in three different, controlled exposure scenarios: calling with the phone at the ear, calling in speaker mode, and calling with a headset. This emitted power is directly proportional to the exposure to RF ...

We investigated how standard speech coders, currently used in modern communication systems, affect the intelligibility of the speech of persons who have common speech and voice disorders. Three standardized speech coders (viz., GSM 6.10 [RPE-LTP], FS1016 [CELP], FS1015 [LPC]) and two speech coders based on subband processing were evaluated for their performance. Coder effects were assessed by measuring the intelligibility of vowels and consonants both before and after processing by the speech coders. Native English talkers who had normal hearing identified these speech sounds. Results confirmed that (a) all coders reduce the intelligibility of spoken language; (b) these effects occur in a consistent manner, with the GSM and CELP coders providing the least degradation relative to the original unprocessed speech; and (c) coders interact with individual voices so that speech is degraded differentially for different talkers.. ...

The specific objective of this project is to assess the speech intelligibility using both subjective and objective methods of one of the new speech test methods developed at U.S. Army Research Lab called the Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT). This study is limited to the determination of speech intelligibility for the CAT in the presence of various background noises, such as pink, white, and multitalker babble.

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Article{Valentini-Botinhao2015, Title = {Intelligibility of time-compressed synthetic speech: Compression method and speaking style}, Author = {Cassia Valentini-Botinhao and Markus Toman and Michael Pucher and Dietmar Schabus and Junichi Yamagishi}, Journal = {Speech Communication}, Year = {2015}, Month = nov, Pages = {52 - 64}, Volume = {74}, Abstract = {We present a series of intelligibility experiments performed on natural and synthetic speech time-compressed at a range of rates and analyze the effect of speech corpus and compression method on the intelligibility scores of sighted and blind individuals. Particularly we are interested in comparing linear and non-linear compression methods applied to normal and fast speech of different speakers. We recorded English and German language voice talents reading prompts at a normal and a fast rate. To create synthetic voices we trained a statistical parametric speech synthesis system based on the normal and the fast data of each speaker. We compared ...

Objectives: To assess a group of post-lingually children after 10 years of implantation with regard to speech perception, speech intelligibility, and academic/occupational status.. Study Design: A prospective transversal study. Setting: Pediatric referral center for cochlear implantation. Patients: Ten post-lingually deafened children with Nucleus and Med-El cochlear implants.. Interventions: Speech perception and speech intelligibility tests and interview.. Main Outcome Measures: The main outcome measures were score of Hint sentences recognition (silence and noise), speech intelligibility scores(write-down intelligibility and rating scale scores) and academic/ occupational status. ...

Tone language speakers use lexical tone or fundamental frequency to signal meaning. Therefore, native tone language alaryngeal speakers encountering difficulty imparting lexical tone variation would suffer loss of speech intelligibility. This study examines the intelligibility of lexical tone produc …

The main purpose of the study is to estimate speech intelligibility in noise. A Norwegian Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) for children will be implemented, and test results for normal hearing (NH) children and adults will be collected. Test results for groups of hearing aid (HA) users and test results for cochlea implant (CI) users will be collected and compared to the NH group and between groups of HA users and CI users. A group of single sided hearing loss patients will also be included. Binaural benefits of two ears, two HAs and two CIs will be estimated ...

The original purpose of sound reinforcement was to deliver the spoken word to large groups of people in Utica. The design and installation of early systems was an engineering endeavor with objective performance criteria.

A number of measures were evaluated with regard to their ability to predict the speech-recognition benefit of single-channel noise reduction (NR) processing. Three NR algorithms and a reference condition were used in the evaluation. Twenty listeners with impaired hearing and ten listeners with normal hearing participated in a blinded laboratory study. An adaptive speech test was used. The speech test produces results in terms of signal-to-noise ratios that correspond to equal speech recognition performance (in this case 80% correct) with and without the NR algorithms. This facilitates a direct comparison between predicted and experimentally measured effects of noise reduction algorithms on speech recognition. The experimental results were used to evaluate nine different predictive measures, one in two variants. The best predictions were found with the Coherence Speech Intelligibility Index (CSII) [Kates and Arehart (2005), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117(4), 2224-2237]. In general, measures using ...

Background Cochlear Implants (CIs) provide near normal speech intelligibility in quiet environments to individuals suffering from sensorineural hearing loss. Perception of speech in situations with competing background noise and especially music appraisal however are still insufficient. Hence, improving speech perception in ambient noise and music intelligibility is a core challenge in CI research. Quantitatively assessing music intelligibility is a demanding task due to its inherently subjective nature. However, previous approaches have related electrophysiological measurements to speech intelligibility, a corresponding relation to music intelligibility, can be assumed. Recent studies have investigated the relation between results obtained from hearing performance tests and Spread of Excitations (SoEs) measurements. SoE functions are acquired by measuring Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potentials (ECAPs) which represent the electrical response generated in the neural structures of the ...

InProceedings{Valentini-Botinhao2014, Title = {Intelligibility Analysis of Fast Synthesized Speech}, Author = {Cassia Valentini-Botinhao and Markus Toman and Michael Pucher and Dietmar Schabus and Junichi Yamagishi}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH)}, Year = {2014}, Address = {Singapore}, Month = sep, Pages = {2922-2926}, Abstract = {In this paper we analyse the effect of speech corpus and compression method on the intelligibility of synthesized speech at fast rates. We recorded English and German language voice talents at a normal and a fast speaking rate and trained an HSMM-based synthesis system based on the normal and the fast data of each speaker. We compared three compression methods: scaling the variance of the state duration model, interpolating the duration models of the fast and the normal voices, and applying a linear compression method to generated speech. Word recognition results for the ...

Intelligibility of speech is of critical importance in many respects. Diminished speech intelligibility causes part or all of the intended message to be lost to listeners; the outcome is frustration of speakers and listeners in the least, but impaired communication may be dangerous in some situations. Consequently, improved understanding of the factors which contribute to intelligibility of speech is of great interest in the speech community. For example, the rapid closing of the glottis in the closing phase of the phonatory cycle is generally understood to contribute favourably to the intelligibility of speech by increasing the high frequency content of the resulting speech signal. Recent experimental and numerical studies have suggested that the presence of intraglottal vortices in the closing phase of the phonatory cycle might promote rapid closing of the glottis due to the pressure gradients which arise in the presence of the vortices. To date, computational studies to assess the impact of ...

What youll notice is that the reverberant sound level is now stretching out between the syllables and actually starting to mask some of the sharp spikes of the consonants. That means that some of the syllables are being buried or masked by the reverberant noise. Depending on how far each new syllable is submerged into the reverberant noise, a listener will have varying degrees of difficulty in understanding those words. This is a bit like trying to listen to one person with a bunch of other people talking around you, it gets harder to pick out the sounds you want to hear from all the other conversations around you. The only difference here is that with the reverebrant sound field it is the same conversation repeated hundreds of times with a little bit of time offset. Have a listen: WAV File (180kB) / RealAudio File (41kB) / MP3 File (35kB) How bad can it get? Lets try a room with a 2 second reverb time. ...

As a new assistant professor, my goal was to apply for an NIH grant to fund the work in my lab; however, writing an NIH grant for the first time can be daunting. A mentor suggested applying for an ASHFoundation grant to fund my pilot data for the NIH R03 application. By submitting the New Investigators grant, I could apply to Lessons for Success, a workshop that teaches NIH grant-writing skills and provides opportunities to discuss specific aspects of the NIH application with NIH-funded researchers. Lessons for Success really helped me improve my grant-writing skills and I received valuable feedback on my ASHF grant application. Securing funding from the ASHFoundation also assured me that my research ideas are important to the speech science field. I submitted my first R03 application to NIDCD two years after Lessons for Success and received funding in 2016 ...

Impact of noise on speech comprehension and identification of the acoustic cues that are encoded and used for speech processing -- Seminar ...

In a communications system, consonant high frequency sounds are enhanced: the greater the high frequency content relative to the low, the more such high frequency content is boosted.

The Magnat Cinemotion 510 is designed to ensure a perfect balance between good speech intelligibility, precise effects and thrilling sound. To achieve this, all four satellite speakers are fitted with identical, high-quality coaxial loudspeaker chassis. The center speaker, considered to be particularly important in terms of sound, is equipped with two horizontally arranged subwoofers and a dome tweeter for maximum speech intelligibility and dynamics. All of the chassis used rely on the same technology and display high resilience and low distortion due to optimization via the Klippel laser measuring system ...

Purpose Speech intelligibility research typically relies on traditional evidence of reliability and validity. This investigation used Rasch analysis to enhance understanding of the functioning and meaning of scores obtained with 2 commonly used procedures: word identification (WI) and magnitude estimation scaling (MES). Method Narrative samples of children with hearing impairments were used to collect data from listeners with no previous experience listening to or judging intelligibility of speech. WI data were analyzed with the Rasch rating scale model. MES data were examined with Rasch partial credit model when individual scales were unknown, and the Rasch rating scale model was used with reported individual scales. Results Results indicated that both procedures have high reliability and similar discriminatory power. However, reliability and separation were lower for MES when scales were unknown. Both procedures yielded similar speech sample ordering by their difficulty. However, sampling gaps ...

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The Effect of Noise on Relationships Between Speech Intelligibility and Self-Reported Communication Measures in Tracheoesophageal Speakers. (2016 Aug 1) Am J Speech Lang Pathol 25(3): 393-407 Eadie TL, Otero DS, Bolt S, Kapsner-Smith M, Sullivan ...

Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) has been assessed as a rate reduction and intelligibility enhancing tool in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) for some time. However, there are contradictory results in the literature regarding the success of this device. Also, little is known about the effects of DAF on speech other than influences on speech rate and intelligibility. Frequency shifted feedback (FSF) is known to produce more natural sounding speech than DAF and to improve the fluency of persons who stutter. However, there are currently no studies reporting how PD speakers perform under FSF. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of both types of altered feedback on the speech of PD and control participants on a broad range of measures. The performance of 16 PD speakers and 11 control speakers in a reading task under DAF, FSF, and no altered feedback (NAF) are reported here. The results showed that all groups responded to altered feedback in a similar way and showed a prominent ...

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The Hospital is environmentally friendly and built from materials derived from renewable sources. Hodgson & Hodgson carried out environmental noise surveys to facilitate in the design of the building envelope to control break-in noise and in the specification of noise control measures for internal and external plant items. The sound insulation performances of separating walls and floors were assessed to provide adequate speech privacy in acoustically sensitive areas. Reverberation was also assessed to maintain speech intelligibility. Acoustic compliance testing was also carried to ensure the building met the requirements of BREEAM. The hospital to achieved an Excellent rating ...

Abstract. In addition to 9 vowel and 18 consonant phonemes, Swedish has three prosodic phonemic contrasts: word stress, quantity and tonal word accent. There are also examples of distinctive phrase or sentence stress, where a verb can be followed by either an unstressed preposition or a stressed particle. This study focuses on word level and more specifically on word stress and tonal word accent in disyllabic words. When making curriculums for second language learners, teachers are helped by knowing which phonetic or phonological features are more or less crucial for the intelligibility of speech and there are some structural and anecdotal evidence that word stress should play a more important role for intelligibility of Swedish, than the tonal word accent. The Swedish word stress is about prominence contrasts between syllables, mainly signaled by syllable duration, while the tonal word accent is signaled mainly by pitch contour. The word stress contrast, as in armen [´arːmən] the arm - ...

Abstract. In addition to 9 vowel and 18 consonant phonemes, Swedish has three prosodic phonemic contrasts: word stress, quantity and tonal word accent. There are also examples of distinctive phrase or sentence stress, where a verb can be followed by either an unstressed preposition or a stressed particle. This study focuses on word level and more specifically on word stress and tonal word accent in disyllabic words. When making curriculums for second language learners, teachers are helped by knowing which phonetic or phonological features are more or less crucial for the intelligibility of speech and there are some structural and anecdotal evidence that word stress should play a more important role for intelligibility of Swedish, than the tonal word accent. The Swedish word stress is about prominence contrasts between syllables, mainly signaled by syllable duration, while the tonal word accent is signaled mainly by pitch contour. The word stress contrast, as in armen [´arːmən] the arm - ...

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At this young age, it is normal to not understand everything your child says. Generally, a simple way to determine your childs intelligibility (or his/her ability to be understood by others) is to take your childs age and divide by four. This determines the amount (percent) of your childs speech that you should understand (i.e. 2 years/4=50%). This may change depending on context and complexity of what your child is saying. Additionally, unfamiliar listeners may understand even less of what your child is saying.. The focus of intervention prior to age three is to make sure your childs language skills are near age-appropriate before solely focusing on his/her intelligibility. When it is appropriate to begin targeting speech sounds, make it fun! For example, you can give sounds different names:. /p/- popper sound. /b/- bounce sound. /m/- yummy sound. /h/- laughing sound. You can also make fun noises throughout play activities that contain difficult sounds for your child:. ...

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There have been differences in the use of the correlation coefficient (r) or the coefficient of determination (r2) for indexing the effect size (see Borenstein, 2009; Elis, 2010; Rosenthal & DiMatteo, 2001 for reviews). I intend to investigate this issue by considering it from the point of view of matching the findings with the implied prediction. In essence my argument follows from a simplification of the correlation coefficient to the case where both variables are dichotomous and where there are equal frequencies of each possible response on both variables. Based on this simplified case, the question is whether the correlation coefficient or the coefficient of determination most closely resembles the actual proportion of agreements (successes) between the two variables after controlling for chance. To flesh out the idea, suppose that there are two variables and each of these is dichotomous and scored 0 or 1. From the point of view of a researcher who believes that the relation between the two

How to be a Package-Dealing Theist - In a recent NRO essay, Michael Novak accuses atheists of trying to have the cake of theism, while eating it too. Novaks analysis is such a well-distilled statement of common confusions, that its worthwile working through the worst of it. Novak says,. Atheism is a long-term project. It is not completed when one ceases believing in God. It is necessary to carry it through until one empties from the world all the conceptual space once filled by God. One must also, for instance, abandon the conviction that the events, phenomena, and laws of the world we live in (those of the whole universe) cohere, belong together, have a unity. What is born from chance may be ruled by chance, quite insanely.. Most atheists one meets, however, take up a position rather less rigorous. To the big question Did the world of our experience, with all its seeming intelligibility and laws, come into existence by chance, or by the action of an agent that placed that intelligibility ...

Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, 29th MarchPlease visit the Call page for full information. Detailed application instructions here. The call: This call represents the first of nine waves of funding from the EPSRC Network Plus in Human Data Interaction (HDI). Each call will be on a different theme, and these themes will frame and support a network of…

Many students do not realize there is a difference between comprehensibility and intelligibility of speech although in the real world they are used interchangeably. A person who is comprehensible is readily understood because of the listeners familiarity to either them, the topic being discussed, or added cues such as gesture or familiar dialect. Intelligibility in my field has to do strictly with articulation. I have come across people who perfectly pronounce all of their words, but because they speak too quickly or too low, they are not comprehensible (readily understood by the listener). In this short segment, I would encourage you to record yourself and see if your rate might have a negative impact on how your words are understood. For those who find they are moving too quickly, I will share a quick and dirty tip for naturally slowing down without thinking okay well I better slow down.. TIP: EMPHASIZE the ending consonants of all your words! Look at this sentence: The magazine is in ...

A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) approach to translate brain waves into speech Akbari et al. Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex. Scientific Reports January,

Fig 1. Block diagram of proposed lips-to-speech system.. The problem faced is that there is no audio information contained within a visual speech signal. The fundamental frequency and a voicing classification can only be inferred, and the only spectral information available may be that which can be determined from the lips. Phase is not important as the model ensures it is kept continuous.. Testing conducted in the initial stages will aim to identify which of the aforementioned parameters affect the intelligibility of speech. It is hoped that the results collected will aid in the development of the main system.. ...

After being available for pre-sale for two weeks, 11 new Speech Clarity Evaluation for Therapy Planning Videos On-Demand were finally released yesterday. TalkTools is proud to be offering this innovative way to help Speech and Language Therapists and other professionals perfect their Continuing Education. We hope this technique will improve the way speech, oral-motor and feeding disorders are being treated, as well as facilitate the understanding of special needs.. Each video includes interviews with the referring SLP and parent of the client, an initial Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) evaluation with program plan, and a four month follow-up with a program plan update. The tool is intuitive and lets you go through your training easily and smoothly. You just have to watch the video and take the quiz online to earn your ASHA/AOTA CEUs.. Each video is unique in regards to the client, the diagnoses, and the program plans. The diagnoses treated are:. - Language and Intelligibility: A four-year-old ...

When coverage is key but space or budget are limited, Earthworks microphones deliver. Whether speaking directly on-axis or to the sides of the microphone, they always reproduce the speakers voice with incredible clarity and intelligibility. And with coverage up to 90 degrees off-axis, one microphone can cover far more than just one speaker. This also means that fewer Earthworks microphones are required to properly cover a conference room, cutting down on the number of channels of DSP, cables and other ancillary equipment required for the system.. ...

Pronouncing Words in TTS Systems. Julia Hirschberg CS 4706. Today. Motivation Improve TTS intelligibility and naturalness An application: Language Learning Challenges for automatic word pronunciation Standard methods Pronunciation by rule Pronouncing dictionaries Innovative solutions Slideshow 1276713 by omer

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 55. HUMES RELATIVE IDEAS The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy In this paper I shall show that Hume found within the way of ideas the basis for a distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. By examining the distinction between positive and relative ideas and Humes discussions of relative ideas in the light of the logical writings of Antoine Arnauld and Isaac Watts, I shall argue that relative ideas are the cognitive analogues of definite descriptions. Although Hume often regarded epistemic claims based upon relative ideas with at least a modicum of scepticism, the doctrine of relative ideas provides the basis for the intelligibility of and the critical moves in his discussions of that ...

It is also obvious that in these atheist books, and in their debates, they make arguments that they believe (big emphasis) prove that God does not exist, or that he likely does not exist. It s kind of like saying I don t have any beliefs myself even though I believe your belief is wrong. It falls foul to the law of self-contradiction. In fact, John Lennox an Oxford mathematician and philosopher of science in an interview, on this very subject, opines:. The atheists claim that they don t have faith. Oh yes they do, in their science, in the rational intelligibility of the universe. When you have faith, you have a belief the atheist isn t the exception. William Lane Craig, a leading philosopher, comments:. If atheism is taken to be a view, namely the view that there is no God, then atheists must shoulder their share of the burden of proof to support this view. But many atheists admit freely that they cannot sustain such a burden of proof. So they try to shirk their epistemic responsibility by ...

Speech is the most important communication modality for human interaction. Automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis have extended further the relevance of speech to man-machine interaction. Environment noise and various distortions, such as reverberation and speech processing artifacts, reduce the mutual information between the message modulated inthe clean speech and the message decoded from the observed signal. This degrades intelligibility and perceived quality, which are the two attributes associated with quality of service. An estimate of the state of these attributes provides important diagnostic information about the communication equipment and the environment. When the adverse effects occur at the presentation side, an objective measure of intelligibility facilitates speech signal modification for improved communication.. The contributions of this thesis come from non-intrusive quality assessment and intelligibility-enhancing modification of speech. On the part of quality, the ...

BUILDING SUCCESS WITH INTELLIGIBLE SPEECH for Students with Hearing Loss or Others with Speech Pronunciation Issues was created to be used by the Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) and Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TOD). This book includes: • Comprehensive Pronunciation testing for 3-year evaluations • Pronunciation subtests for Developing IEP Goals • Sample IEP Goals • Intervention recommendations • Intervention activities. Skill: Speech Pronunciation Grades: 4 - 12 and adults Population: Deaf or Hard of Hearing Accent Reduction Other Speech Pronunciation Issues I LOVE THIS!! WOW! Building Skills with Intelligible Speech makes so much sense! I think this is a great assessment for teachers and SLPs. The explanations are excellent and I didnt feel like I was reading something that was too technical. The intelligibility explanation versus articulation also made sense. Many students who are DHH may never reach full articulation with some sounds, but this would assist with ...

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Speech supplementation strategies improve spoken communication for people with motor speech disorders who experience reduced speech intelligibility. The purpose of this review was to summarize the literature on traditional supplementation strategies (e.g., alphabet supplementation, topic supplementation, and gestural supplementation) and to expand the definition of speech supplementation to include additional modalities, such as augmenting speech with pictures via mobile technology, and conversation management strategies. Results showed that studies of traditional supplementation consistently reported positive outcomes, including increased intelligibility, decreased speech rate, and positive attitudes toward speakers. New modalities, such as supplementing speech through digital photos, may come to be integrated with traditional approaches, given the proliferation of digital photography and mobile tablet technologies. In addition, new research is exploring the role of communication partners in ...

Baer, T., & Moore, B. C. (1993). Effects of spectral smearing on the intelligibility of sentences in noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 94(3), 1229-1241.. Baer, T., & Moore, B. C. (1994). Effects of spectral smearing on the intelligibility of sentences in the presence of interfering speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(4), 2277-2280.. Hopkins, C., Graetzer, S., & Seiffert, G. (2019). ARU adult British English speaker corpusof IEEE sentences(ARU speech corpus) version 1.0 [data collection]. Acoustics Research Unit, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. DOI: 10.17638/datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/681. Retrieved from http://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/681/.. Moore, B. C., & Glasberg, B. R. (1993). Simulation of the effects of loudness recruitment and threshold elevation on the intelligibility of speech in quiet and in a background of speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 94(4), 2050-2062.. Moore, B. C., Glasberg, B. ...

Stuart Rosen has brought theoretical insight and new research techniques to national and international collaborations in APD. His work on auditory discrimination skills, and his collaboration with Sophie Scott on rhythmic and nonverbal aspects of auditory perception, has provided new grounds for exploring developmental language impairments. Andrew Faulkner and colleagues cochlear implant work demonstrates perceptual adaptation to the distortions of frequency-to-place mapping that arise in CI users, and the limitations of current devices in signalling the pitch of spectrally-varying sounds such as speech. Paul Iverson has established a new theoretical conceptualization of the acquisition of non-native speech sounds which he is now applying to L2 training. Valerie Hazans ground-breaking studies of talker variability revealed inter-listener differences in the acoustic-phonetic determinants of speech intelligibility. She has also led the international field in considering the role of speechreading ...

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A typical single-tweeter point source in an architectural speaker radiates a very wide soundfield. This actually creates multiple reflections from the rooms periphery, presenting the listener with multiple delayed and out-of-phase versions of the original sound which reduce the clarity of that sound. The ARC Tweeter Array significantly enhances speech intelligibility by narrowing the sound output pattern in a manner that lets integrators precisely direct the soundfield to the listening area. By arraying the transducers closely together along a single arc, AIM Series 2 minimizes the disruption to the horizontal off-axis frequency response. Meanwhile, the high frequency response soundfield along the transducers vertical axis will be diminished due to the close proximities of the adjacent transducers, which increases the vertical directivity. The increase in vertical directivity diminishes reflections outside the listening area, thus enhancing dialog and vocals.. The ARC Tweeter Array also ...

Era 3: Online processing. Directional mics (d-mics), reduced power consumption (longer battery life), noise management and controls on feedback developed during this period. Hearing aids contained multiple small computer chips that allowed for precision control. D-mics with multiple microphones are used to increase speech intelligibility. They can be switchable-the patient can flick a switch to change the mic from omni to directional-limiting the pick-up from behind the head. From switchable d-mics came adaptive d-mics, which continuously process and adapt to changing environments. Despite good lab results, we cant predict success in the real world, Bentler said, adding that audiologists cannot rely on slope of loss, or self-report scales, to predict directional advantage. Bentler conducted research that focused on real-world assessment but noted the inconclusive results, saying, one-third of the subjects liked the omni mic, a third liked the fixed d-mic and a third liked the adaptive mic. ...

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Perioperative mortality was 1.5%. Overall, 29 patients (45%) experienced surgical or medical complications; however, only 2 patients (3%) required operative intervention. The flap success rate was 100%. Eighty-six percent of patients were decannulated, 34% were able to meet all of their nutritional needs orally, and 69% attained ,80% speech intelligibility. Preoperative swallowing impairment was associated with postoperative feeding tube dependence (p = .006). ...

Thanks, and yes, that is a good question about whether fluency improves when you get the client to improve upon their self-awareness of sound production and pauses - or lack of pauses -- from an audio recording. In my experience, fluency increases but so does intelligibility. Both can be important to the person who clutters. Usually intelligibility is the higher priority. So a clutterer is apt to say, I dont really stutter - I knew someone in HS who stutters and it isnt like that - but I hate it when Im always being asked to repeat myself. This needing to repeat can be due to sound production problems (syl/sec are excessive, pauses are irregular and non-linguistic, weak syllable delletion/coarticulation is prevalent) OR it can be be the nonstutters / nonfluencies / mazing that detracts from the listener receiving the message that the speaker who clutters is trying to convey. Like a speaker in the Myers & St. Louis DVD says, Cluttering is something I do that makes people go what? ...

Todays newsletter is our fourth Resource Guide, and its about teaching constituency. There are many ways to approach the details of what kind of basic sentence structure to teach intro students to draw, so it would be impossible to put together a resource on tree-drawing that would satisfy everyone, but what these disparate approaches have in common is that they all come back to constituency.

This article compares Peirces pragmatist approach to the problem of perceptual experience as a fallible foundation of knowledge to a sophisticated empiricist position. While empiricism can accommodate the idea of perception as fallible, theoretically laden, and containing conjectural elements, the cardinal difference between pragmatism and empiricism consists in the pragmatist insistence on the intrinsic intelligibility of experience, which also serves as the ultimate source of all forms of intelligibility. Empiricism, on the other hand, retains a penchant for fitting experiences into abstract conceptual schemes. Editions Rodopi © 2011.

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Laurent Benaroya, Fr d ric Bimbot, Guillaume Gravier and R mi Gribonval, Experiments in audio source separation with one sensor for robust speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 19 December 2005, . (Website) Naveen Srinivasamurthy, Antonio Ortega and Shrikanth Narayanan, Efficient scalable encoding for distributed speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 December 2005, . (Website) Leigh D. Alsteris and Kuldip K. Paliwal, Further intelligibility results from human listening tests using the short-time phase spectrum, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 5 December 2005, . (Website) Luis Fernando DHaro, Ricardo de C rdoba, Javier Ferreiros, Stefan W. Hamerich, Volker Schless, Basilis Kladis, Volker Schubert, Otilia Kocsis, Stefan Igel and Jos M. Pardo, An advanced platform to speed up the design of multilingual dialog applications for multiple modalities, Speech ...

The association among thrombosis and cancer has become recognized for more than 150 years. of VTE the multitude of risk factors and the higher Cardiolipin risk of VTE recurrence and death among patients with cancer signify considerable troubles HNRNPA1L2 in modern clinical oncology. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) actually developed recommendations for VTE in individuals with malignancy in 2007. ASCO recently updated medical practice recommendations on the treatment and avoidance of VTE kb NB 142-70 supplier in individuals kb NB 142-70 supplier with malignancy following an extensive systematic review of the books. Revised 2013 guidelines have already been presented and will also be discussed with this review today. Although a number of new studies were diagnosed and regarded many essential questions remain regarding the romantic relationship between thrombosis and malignancy and the maximum care of individuals at risk meant for VTE. Keywords: Malignancy Thrombosis Venous ...

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Since my son was very young, weve worked for so many hours on his speech. Together, weve worked with many therapists to carve out individual phonemes, tones, sounds and finally words. Each tiny advance takes months. I wept when I heard him say, I love you for the first time, even though it was in a slurred, indistinct voice of the exact type that Cenac was mocking. Moreover, speech is so fraught, because intelligibility -- how clearly my son can communicate with strangers -- determines what kind of independence will be possible for him as an adult ...

Reidy, P. F., Kristensen, K., Winn, M. B., Litovsky, R. Y., & Edwards, J. R. (in press). The acoustics of word-initial fricatives and their effect on word-level intelligibility in children with bilateral cochlear implants, Ear & Hearing. Esbensen, A.,; MacLean, W.E., Jr., (2017). Down syndrome. In M. L. Wehmeyer, I. Brown, M. Percy, K.A. Shogren, & A. Fung (Eds.), A comprehensive…

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Zaras mind was off the lesson about as often as it was on it. The teachers voice faded in and out of intelligibility. That didnt make for a very effective understanding of the topic being taught. Somewhere in the midst of staring out the window and wondering if there were unicorns in Australia, she decided…

PACE financing is one of those issues that has sweeping implications for clean energy adoption, but can be just so darn difficult to understand (see: net metering). If you can you believe it, the current acronym (PACE stands for Property Assessed Clean Energy) is a major step toward intelligibility from what we were first calling it (Municipal Property Tax Financing . . . or MPTF?). Acronym alphabet soup aside, its a topic that mixes the intricacies of tax law and bond finance with mortgages and clean energy. Like we said, not easy.. ...

A new study by Aguirre, Gomez-Ariza, Andrés, Mazzoni, Bajo has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology. The study explores the cognitive mechanisms of directed forgetting, a phenomenon referring to impaired memory arising from an instruction to forget the unwanted material. In this study the authors suggest that neither verbal rehearsal nor context change are sufficient to account for the directed forgetting phenomenon and that the data are compatible with an inhibition account.. Abstract:. While some studies have shown that providing a cue to selectively forget one subset of previously learned facts may cause specific forgetting of this information, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this memory phenomenon. In three experiments we aimed to better understand the nature of the selective directed forgetting (SDF) effect. Participants studied a List 1 consisting of 18 sentences regarding two (or three) different characters and a List 2 consisting of sentences ...

It is a truly wonderful accessory to have with my GIMP. Excellent noise-reduction, with a surprising amount of detail preservation. In order to get satisfactory effects, you do need to play around with the settings, though. I usually set: Strength: 45 Contour Pre.: 75 Noise scale: 4 (The rest at default) A big Thank you to the developers---without GREYCstoration Id have a ton of noisy photographs. Now they are cleaner, more detailed, and smooth. P.S. Re: May 4, 2009 - 17:32 - Anonymous Interesting observation! Ive been having the exact same issue for a while, seems like the OK button and main buttons are obscured under the bottom area of the screen. Nothing what I have tried can fix this (even full-screen). However, I did find out that after adjusting the noise-reduction levers, if I click on the + zoom button a couple times, next on the - zoom, then press ENTER on the keyboard several times---noise-reduction is applied just as if I had pressed OK ...

I have been reflecting lately on how important - and how difficult - it is to listen. I am coming to understand how much conflict and misunderstanding is related to a failure to listen well, and I want to become a better listener. Ive been blessed to know many people who were good listeners. What…

To be a good listener, improve your ability to concentrate and refrain from jumping to conclusions. More tips for becoming are in this article.

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Hello! Im glad youve found me on 7 Cups of Tea. Im a trained active listener and I like to support people struggling with Anything, for i am happy when i help someone else. I enjoy traveling,loving people, being social, explore, read, etc. Ive overcome a lot in life and would like to help by listening to you. If Im online, then please feel free to start a chat. If Im offline, then send me a message and we can set up a time to connect. Glad you are here ...

Happy Friday, listeners. This weeks episode was made up entirely of your questions, so if its lame, its totally your fault. And if its awesome, then you should pat yourself on the back for being so good at coming up with interesting thi...

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