Three studies are presented which aim at rater-independent methods to evaluate voice quality, speech intelligibility and the benefit of rehabilitation of the patients: (1) real time endoscopy of the vibrating PE segment, (2) quantification of speech intelligibility by means of a computerized speech recognition system and (3) rating of the laryngectomees’ quality-of-life in relation to his subst...

Non-native speech can cause perceptual difficulty for the native listener, but experience can moderate this difficulty. This study explored the perceptual benefits of brief exposure to non-native speech. A cross-modal word matching paradigm was used to investigate perception of foreign-accented speech by native English listeners during the first moments of exposure. In 5 experiments, processing...

Speech processing algorithms are often developed demonstrating improvements over the state-of-the-art, but sometimes at the cost of high complexity. This makes algorithm reimplementations based on literature difficult, and thus reliable comparisons between published results and current work are hard to achieve. This paper presents a new collaborative and freely available repository for speech p...

Research on the temporal organisation of speech perception is focussed mostly on the linguistic categories of the input. What is the role of non-grammatical categories for this processes? What kind of mechanisms integrate both kinds of features within the online process of perception? Individual voice qualities and the position of the sentence within the text were chosen to test the time interv...

introduction: the every possible attempt in voice disorders assessment is to gather samples which represent individual s’ actual voice in the daily speech. the researchers have found that voice characteristics in reading a passage are closer to daily speech. making texts has been started since early 20th century. the lack o f suitable text in farsi language makes it difficult to conduct requisi...

Technologies for speech recognition and synthesis are becoming increasingly sophisticated and provide support for information processing via multi-modal interfaces. The benefit of delivering information across different sensory modalities is often backed by the independent nature of multi-modal information processing, which assumes that there will be no interference of modality between tasks an...

Brain systems supporting face and voice processing both contribute to the extraction of important information for social interaction (e.g., person identity). How does the brain reorganize when one of these channels is absent? Here, we explore this question by combining behavioral and multimodal neuroimaging measures (magneto-encephalography and functional imaging) in a group of early deaf human...

Despite successful performance on some audiovisual emotion tasks, hypoactivity has been observed in frontal and temporal integration cortices in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Little is understood about the neurofunctional network underlying this ability in individuals with ASD. Research suggests that there may be processing biases in individuals with ASD, based on their abil...

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...