Listening skill is one of the skills that should be mastered. However, many students have difficulty at listening sessions, especially in understanding what speaker saying. It because they lack background knowledge to support their listening. To improve skill, a suitable strategy needed. The use songs classroom can increase students’ interest. Therefore, this study aimed finding information on ...

PURPOSE Older adults exhibit difficulty understanding speech that has been experimentally degraded. Age-related changes to the speech mechanism lead to natural degradations in signal quality. We tested the hypothesis that older adults with hearing loss would exhibit declines in speech recognition when listening to the speech of older adults, compared with the speech of younger adults, and would...

Half of the students had difficulty mastering their English listening skills because instructional facilities did not adequately cover learning process and media method were uninteresting. This study aims to find out students’ perceptions toward use YouTube applications implemented in teaching listening. The sample was Biological Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare, Indonesia. research instrument...

When listening in noisy conditions, word recognition seems to be much harder in a non-native language than in one’s native language. Native listeners use both word-initial and word-final information for word recognition in clean listening conditions, where word-initial information is the most important. When listening in noise, however, word-final information becomes relatively more important. ...

The GTZAN dataset appears in at least 100 published works, and is the most-used public dataset for evaluation in machine listening research for music genre recognition (MGR). Our recent work, however, shows GTZAN has several faults (repetitions, mislabelings, and distortions), which challenge the interpretability of any result derived using it. In this article, we disprove the claims that all M...