objectives: this study examined the relationship between working and short-term memory performance, and their effects on cochlear implant outcomes (speech perception and speech production) in cochlear implanted children aged 7-13 years. the study also compared the memory performance of cochlear implanted children with their normal hearing peers. methods: thirty-one cochlear implanted children w...

Speech to speech translation can benefit from translation of emphasis. We propose to use an intonation model to retrieve and transfer events associated with emphasis in the intonation. This model decomposes the F0 contour into basic intonation atoms using the matching pursuit algorithm. We investigate the role of these components in the perception of emphasis. Some of the most prominent local c...

Perceptual aftereffects have been referred to as "the psychologist's microelectrode" because they can expose dimensions of representation through the residual effect of a context stimulus upon perception of a subsequent target. The present study uses such context-dependence to examine the dimensions of representation involved in a classic demonstration of "talker normalization" in speech percep...

This paper investigates the relationship between the phonological features of tone and tone perception in Thai. Specifically, it tests the hypothesis (proposed by Morén & Zsiga) that the principle perceptual cues to the five-way tonal contrast in Thai are high and low pitch targets aligned to moras. Results of four perception studies, one using natural speech and three using digitally-altered s...

In the context of telecommunications, speech quality is the most visible and important aspects of quality of service (QoS), and the ability to monitor and design for this quality should be a top priority. Speech quality refers to the clearness of a speaker’s voice as perceived by a listener. Its measurement offers a means of adding the human end-user’s perspective to traditional ways of perform...

According to previous studies on contextual tonal variations, as a result of interaction between tone-bearing syllables, carryover effect is much greater than anticipatory effect. Consequently, for a given tone in continuous speech, the most consistent portion of F0 (fundamental frequency) contour resides in the latter part of the host syllable. Perception tests on Cantonese level tones were co...

This study reports longitudinal follow-up of 300 children with developmental dysphasia. Their expressive disturbances are a manifestation of their auditory decoding impairment. These children were investigated on battery of tests of spoken language, of phonological processing and of different audiometric procedures, in order to register all the information necessary to be able judge the speech-...

background and aim: different tests have been developed to evaluate reduced ability of speech perception in noise, and the words-in-noise test is one of the easiest ones in terms of speech materials. this study aimed to develop and determine the validity and reliability of the persian version of the words-in-noise (win) test for 7 to 12-year-old children. methods: this research is a tool-making...

The general goal of this thesis is to increase comparability, accuracy, and diagnostical benefit of sentence intelligibility tests within one language and to give suggestions for realizing comparable sentence intelligibility tests across languages. Most sentence intelligibility tests are either composed of meaningful (everyday) sentences or syntactically fixed, but semantically unpredictable se...

The present study examined to what extent proficiency in a non-native language influences speech perception in noise. We explored how English proficiency affected native (Swedish) and non-native (English) speech perception in four speech reception threshold (SRT) conditions, including two energetic (stationary, fluctuating noise) and two informational (two-talker babble Swedish, two-talker babb...