............................................................................................... v Introduction............................................................................................. 1 Review of the literature ............................................................................... 3 Auditory speech perception ............................................................

The following study compared the effectiveness of unimodal and bimodal training strategies at improving the perception of speech information under a variety of conditions. Normal-hearing subjects were trained in the perception of vowel and consonant stimuli. Speech information was provided either via a multiple channel electrotactile speech processing aid (the Tickle Talker), and/or by a 200-Hz...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that children with pure-tone averages of greater than 90 dB hearing level and/or open-set sentence perception of less than 30% may derive significant benefit from cochlear implantation. OBJECTIVE To evaluate postoperative speech perception benefit and bilateral-bimodal benefit for 16 children whose preimplant speech perception scores exceeded conservative...

Do the same mechanisms underlie processing of music and language? Recent investigations of this question have yielded inconsistent results. Likely factors contributing to discrepant findings are use of small samples and failure to control for individual differences in cognitive ability. We investigated the relationship between music and speech prosody processing, while controlling for cognitive...

This paper describes a system that combines independent transformation techniques to endow a neutral utterance with some required target emotion. The system consists of three modules that are each trained on a limited amount of speech data and act on differing temporal layers. F0 contours are modelled and generated using context-sensitive syllable HMMs, while durations are transformed using pho...