Adult perception of children’s speech

Speech Perception, Adult

Perception of Synthetic Speech in Adult Users of Cochlear Implants

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis technology has great potential to be implemented in aural rehabilitation because of the flexibility it affords for stimulus generation. However, little is known about how listeners with cochlear implants (CI) perceive and respond to synthetic speech. This study investigated how adult CI users perceive and respond to synthetic speech of varying qualities in order t...

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Speech Perception 1. Psychophysics of Speech Perception

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Predictability and adult-child cue weighting differences in speech perception

In this experiment, we tested the hypothesis that adult-child differences in cue weighting are influenced by adult-child differences in knowledge of (a) the relative predictability of wordinitial vs. word-final consonants, and (b) of the relationship between predictability and acoustic salience/distinctiveness. We tested our hypothesis using synthetic speech continua with formant transitions va...