Speech Audiometry by Synthetic Japanese Vowels

Production of Estonian vowels by Japanese subjects

This study explores the production of Estonian vowel categories by second-language (L2) speakers of Estonian whose native language (L1) is Japanese. The Estonian vowel system includes nine vowels whereas Japanese has only five. The results by six native Japanese and ten native Estonian subjects when reading Estonian target words in sentence show that Japanese subjects were successful in product...

Devoicing of Japanese vowels by taiwanese learners of Japanese

Of the Taiwanese participants, only one showed any significant speech rate effect (t = 1.88, p < .05 for the first vowel of the tokens; t =2.29, p < .025 for both vowels combined). One other showed no speech rate effects whatsoever, instead inconsistently devoicing some tokens, while the third did not devoice any vowels within the tokens, instead only devoicing a small number of sentence-final ...

Mimicking of synthetic vowels

Speech Audiometry– A Reliable Pointer

Auditory Neuropathy coexisting with bilateral conductive hearing loss has not been reported so far .This case report highlights how the underlying Auditory Neuropathy can be unmasked by Speech Audiometry and that subsequently changes the entire management. Unlike Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA), Speech Audiometry is not necessarily done always for all patients, especially in developing countries and...

Pitch of synthetic sung vowels

Experiments a r e reported in which ~xus ica l ly trained subjects ~ i a t c h the pitch of zl. stimulus tone with a var iablc response tone, both tones being synthesis of a sung vo\vel. The effects on pitch and pitch perception ac curacy of vibratos of different kinds and tile ' singing formant' a r e examined. The resul t s appear to show that the pitch corresponds to the average fundamental ...