Word and sentence level timing in natural fast speech differs from that at a normal speech rate. However, previous research has shown that making the temporal pattern of artificially time-compressed speech more similar to that of natural fast speech did not improve intelligibility over linear time compression. Furthermore, pilot studies suggested that naturally produced fast speech is more diff...

speech compression is the digital signal which is compressed by using various techniques for transmission. This paper explains a transform methodology for compression of the speech signal. In this paper speech is compressed by discrete wavelet transform technique afterward compressed signal is again compressed by discrete cosine transform afterward compressed signal is decompressed by discrete ...

Speakers vary their speech rate considerably during a conversation, and listeners are able to quickly adapt to these variations in speech rate. Adaptation to fast speech rates is usually measured using artificially time-compressed speech. This study examined adaptation to two types of fast speech: artificially time-compressed speech and natural fast speech. Listeners performed a speeded sentenc...

Natural fast speech differs from normal-rate speech with respect to its temporal pattern. Previous results showed that word intelligibility of heavily artificially time-compressed speech could not be improved by making its temporal pattern more similar to that of natural fast speech. This might have been due to the extrapolation of timing rules for natural fast speech to rates that are much fas...

Humans can adapt to a wide range of variations in the speech signal, maintaining an invariant representation of the linguistic information it contains. Among them, adaptation to rapid or time-compressed speech has been well studied in adults, but the developmental origin of this capacity remains unknown. Does this ability depend on experience with speech (if yes, as heard in utero or as heard p...

We studied the effect of speech time compression (TC), alone and in the presence of competing babble, in 24 adults and 24 children. Both adults and children showed significant decreases in speech recognition when speech was compressed at a rate of 60 percent, as compared with recognition of normal-rate speech. Listening to time-compressed speech in a binaural homophasic mode resulted in better ...

Short-term and long-term learning effects were investigated for the German Oldenburg sentence test (OLSA) using original and time-compressed fast speech in noise. Normal-hearing and hearing-impaired participants completed six lists of the OLSA in five sessions. Two groups of normal-hearing listeners (24 and 12 listeners) and two groups of hearing-impaired listeners (9 listeners each) performed ...

This study investigated whether recognition of time-compressed speech predicts recognition of natural fast-rate speech, and whether this relationship is influenced by listener age. High and low context sentences were presented to younger and older normal-hearing adults at a normal speech rate, naturally fast speech rate, and fast rate implemented by time compressing the normal-rate sentences. R...