Hearing tests: quantify the hearing abilities of people with both normal hearing and hearing impairments Speech reception threshold (SRT): SNR level at which the speech recognition rate of a person is 50% – Evaluating a listener’s hearing capabilities and diagnosing hearing loss – Adjusting the CI parameters and analyze the impact of new developments in CI devices – Provides useful data for psy...

Auditory processing impairments negatively impact language learning, the ability to listen effectively in noisy environments, and the development of reading skills. Behavioral assessments of auditory processing provide valuable insight into auditory function but lack information about the biological health of the auditory pathway, and can be complicated by comorbid disorders, alertness, and mot...

The Filibuster text-to-speech system is specifically designed and developed for the production of digital talking textbooks at university level for students with print impairments. Currently, the system has one Swedish voice, 'Folke', which has been used in production at the Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB) since 2007. In August 2008 the development of a Norwegian voice (bokmå...

This critical review examines the effects of ultrasound technology as a visual biofeedback tool as an adjunct to speech therapy on the productive speech intelligibility of adolescents and young adults with moderate to profound hearing impairments. Study designs include: case study and single subject design. Overall, research suggests a facilitative role of this technology in developing more typ...

In this paper we provide the state-of-the-art of existing proprietary and free and open source software (FOSS) automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech synthesizers, and Machine Translation (MT) tools. We also focus on the need for multimodal communication including gestures, furnishing some examples of 3D gesture recognition software. Our current experiment is based on interoperability betwe...

This CSLL nal year project was undertaken in conjunction with the Trinity College laboratory of phonetics and speech synthesis under the supervision of Professor Ailbhe Ní Chasaide. Under the optic of the creation of a tool for the research and instruction of speech pitch, the project involved the design and implementation of an interactive graphical user interface known as PitchMod. This inter...

objectives: in september 2002 university of social welfare & rehabilitation sciences established a pilot universal newborn hearing screening program in two crowded maternity hospital in tehran. our objective was to assess the feasibility of implementing universal newborn hearing screening in iran. methods: between september 2002 and march 2004 a total of 7718 newborns were screened for hearing ...

The paper presents the results of a sociological study conducted in Rostov region among high school students general and specialized educational institutions 2020 (N=11727). purpose is to identify attitudes towards inclusive collaborative education. Particular attention paid determinants type institution respondents, experience coeducation, presence or absence disabilities respondents. Experien...

This paper introduces the acquisition, evaluation and baseline Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) experiments of a novel corpus containing speech from a set of impaired and unimpaired young speakers. A group of 14 speakers with different speech disorders have uttered several sessions over a 57-word vocabulary in Spanish to gather more than 3 hours of speech. In addition to this work, a parallel...