Access to large samples of listeners is an appealing prospect for speech perception researchers, but lack of control over key factors such as listeners’ linguistic backgrounds and quality of stimulus delivery is a formidable barrier to the application of crowdsourcing. We describe the outcome of a web-based listening experiment designed to discover consistent confusions amongst words presented ...

The effectiveness of FM auditory trainers, conventional hearing aids, and CROS aids in six children with varying degrees of unilateral hearing loss was compared. Word recognition unaided and with each of the forms of amplification was evaluated both in quiet and in noise in a classroom. With the conventional hearing aid and CROS aid fittings, word recognition actually decreased in noise. With t...

This study investigated the extent to which noise impacts normal-hearing young adults' speech processing of sentences that vary in intelligibility. Intelligibility and recognition memory in noise were examined for conversational and clear speech sentences recorded in quiet (quiet speech, QS) and in response to the environmental noise (noise-adapted speech, NAS). Results showed that (1) increase...

A new word-matching method is proposed that is able to achieve matching speedily and correctly even in the presence of noise at the beginning, end or within the word. This method can use the discriminant function in order to choose the most fitting word from the database. These functions take into consideration factors such as the character recognition rate and word segmentation rate. In additi...

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND DISORDERS • Volume 28 • 20–29 • Spring 2001 © NSSLHA 1092-5171/01/2801-0020 ABSTRACT: Spoken word recognition was investigated in a group of children aged 3:0 to 7:11 (years:months) to assess the relationship between five measures of language development and spoken word recognition accuracy. Two spoken word recognition tasks, gated words and nois...