abstract   introduction: conductive hearing loss attenuates and delays sound transmission in the middle ear. it can make variety of central auditory processing disorders; that persists even after resolve of peripheral auditory system problems. one of the aspects of central auditory processing is the temporal processing, which is important for understanding speech, including temporal resolution,...

A dichotic monitoring test for the lateralisation of speech dominance was compared with testing for dysphasia after unilateral electroconvulsive therapy to each side of the head in 31 patients, and the intracarotid amylobarbitone test in four epileptic patients. Twenty-eight patients shown to be left speech dominant also showed right ear advantages in the dichotic test. Four of the five right s...

The speech enhancement techniques are often employed to improve the quality and intelligibility of the noisy speech signals. This paper discusses a novel technique for speech enhancement which is based on Singular Value Decomposition. This implementation utilizes a Genetic Algorithm based optimization method for reducing the effects of environmental noises from the singular vectors as well as t...

INTRODUCTION Individuals with the same ability of speech recognition in quiet can have extremely different results in noisy environments. OBJECTIVE To standardize speech perception in adults with normal hearing in the free field using the Brazilian Hearing in Noise Test. METHODS Contemporary, cross-sectional cohort study. 79 adults with normal hearing and without cognitive impairment partic...

We attempted to estimate subjective scores of the Japanese Diagnostic Rhyme Test (DRT), a two-to-one forced selection speech intelligibility test, using automatic speech recognizers with language models that force one of the words in the wordpair. The acoustic models were adapted to the speaker, and then adapted to noise at a specified SNR. The match between subjective and recognition scores im...

The capability of speech understanding can be tested in the form of sentences. This report describes the origin of a new test in the Czech language to evaluate the sentence intelligibility with the presence of the competitive disturb noise. The results of the test depend on the test project, sentence material, competitive signal, test evaluation, and hearing conditions. Pilot results were obtai...

In speech recognition, a speech/non-speech detection must be robust to noise. In this work, a new method for speech/nonspeech detection using a Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) applied to Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) is presented. The energy is the most discriminant parameter between noise and speech. But with this single parameter, the speech/non-speech detection system detects...