“Hackers” have written malicious programs to exploit online services intended for human users. As a result, service providers need a method to tell whether a web site is being accessed by a human or a machine. We expect a parallel scenario as spoken language interfaces become common. In this paper, we describe a Reverse Turing Test (i.e., an algorithm that can distinguish between humans and com...

introduction:different types of prosthesis are available for stapes replacement. because there has been no published report on the efficacy of the titanium soft-clip vs the fluoroplastic causse loop teflon piston, we compared short-term hearing results of both types of prosthesis in patients who underwent stapedotomy due to otosclerosis.materials and methods:a total of 57 ears were included in ...

This paper proposes adaptive Gaussian backend (AGB), a novel approach to robust language identification (LID). In this approach, a given test sample is compared to language-specific training data in order to dynamically select data for a trialspecific language model. Discriminative AGB additionally weights the training data to maximize discrimination against the test segment. Evaluated on heavi...

Experimental studies have reported a close association between temporal information processing (TIP) and language comprehension. Brain-injured subjects with aphasia show disturbed TIP which was evidenced in elevated temporal order threshold (TOT) as compared to control subjects. The present study is aimed at improving auditory speech comprehension in aphasic subjects using a specific temporal t...

OBJECTIVE To analyze speech discrimination scores and subjective benefit of a transcutaneous bone conduction device (tBCD) in adults with single-sided deafness (SSD). STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Nine adults with SSD for more than 1 year and normal hearing on the contralateral side (PTA <30 dB HL) were implanted with a tBCD. INTERVENT...

Introduction:Different types of prosthesis are available for stapes replacement. Because there has been no published report on the efficacy of the titanium soft-clip vs the fluoroplastic Causse loop Teflon piston, we compared short-term hearing results of both types of prosthesis in patients who underwent stapedotomy due to otosclerosis.Materials and Methods:A total of 57 ears were included in ...

In this paper, an approach for robust signing signal detection in speech/music discrimination is proposed and applied to applications of audio indexing. Conventional approaches in speech/music discrimination can provide reasonable performance with regular music signals but often perform poorly with singing segments. This is due mainly to the fact that speech and singing signals are extremely cl...

Quality and rate of preserved hearing are crucial to make hearing preservation surgery a viable treatment. A long-term experience with hearing preservation surgery, with tumour size and hearing as admission criteria, was evaluated to assess which size and hearing allowed a high rate of success. The hearing outcome in relation to size of tumour and pre-operative hearing was retrospectively revie...

PURPOSE To compare children with typical language development (TLD) and evolutional phonological disorder (EPD) regarding the phonemic discrimination and the linguistic performance of language levels (morphological, syntactic, semantic, and perceptual and productive vocabulary). METHODS The sample comprised 36 children, aged between 5 years and 7 years and 11 months, with TLD and EPD. Childre...