A recent study claimed that inhibitory processes in spoken language processing are relatively slow and may be strongly reduced in listening conditions that require extra processing resources. Time compression of a sentence context did not reduce facilitation of a congruent word target, but inhibition of word targets that were incongruent with the preceding sentence context was strongly reduced....

Many researchers have shown that speech signals can be time compressed (TC) by a factor of two or more without a significant loss in intelligibility. However, most previous studies with TC speech have been conducted either in quiet or, in a very small number of cases, with noise maskers. In this experiment, we examine the effect that TC has on the perception of a speech signal in the presence o...

Conventional time-scale modification methods have the problem that as the modification rate gets higher the time-scale modified speech signal becomes less intelligible, because they ignore the effect of articulation rate on speech characteristics. In this paper, we propose a variable time-scale modification method based on the knowledge that the timing information of transient portions of a spe...

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement based on neural networks had made a great breakthrough. The methods U-Net structure achieved good denoising performance. However, part them rely ordinary convolution operation, which may ignore contextual information and detailed features input speech. To solve this issue, many studies have improved model performance by adding additional...

An extension of HMM-based speech synthesis is proposed to reproduce natural speech sounds. For compression of large amounts of speech, the use of speech synthesizers has an advantage in terms of the size of compressed data. However, the quality of synthetic speech is often inferior to that of speech compressed by general-purpose speech codecs such as CELP, where prosodic features are reproduced...

This study explores how much speech can be temporally compressed and still understood by blind people who have daily practice with speech synthesis vs. sighted persons without such training. Three text modes were generated (formant synthesis, natural speech with and without pauses). These texts were presented to sighted listeners at rates between 9-14 s/s and to blind listeners between 17-22 s/...

Time-compression techniques change the playback rate of speech without introducing pitch artifacts. However, when linear-compression techniques are used, human comprehension of time-compressed speech typically degrades at compression rates above two times real time [1]. These degradations are not due to the speech rate per se: Comprehension of linearly compressed speech often breaks down above ...

background and aim: bilingualism is an important phenomenon with different effects on each aspect of language processing. auditory temporal processing is a major component of the auditory processing ability. since bilingual and monolingual individual’s brain process are different, and no studies have yet been conducted on the effect of temporal processing on speech recognition performance of az...