PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare men with women in terms of speech intelligibility, to investigate the validity of objective acoustic parameters related with speech intelligibility, and to try to set up the standard data for the future study in various field in prosthodontics. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty men and women were served as subjects in the present study. After record...

Exposure to modified speech has been shown to benefit children with language-learning impairments with respect to their language skills (M. M. Merzenich et al., 1998; P. Tallal et al., 1996). In the study by Tallal and colleagues, the speech modification consisted of both slowing down and amplifying fast, transitional elements of speech. In this study, we examined whether the benefits of modifi...

Speech supplementation strategies (alphabet cues, topic cues, and combined topic and alphabet cues) have been shown to have a positive effect on speech intelligibility for many individuals with dysarthria, particularly those with severe and profound intelligibility deficits (Hustad, Auker, Natale, & Carlson, 2003a; Hustad, Jones, & Dailey, 2003b). However, less attention has been given to speak...

Studies on fast speech have shown that word-level timing of fast speech differs from that of normal rate speech in that unstressed syllables are shortened more than stressed syllables as speech rate increases. An earlier experiment showed that the intelligibility of time-compressed speech could not be improved by making its temporal organisation closer to natural fast speech. To test the hypoth...