scholarly journals Reliability of individual differences in degraded speech perception

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. EL461-EL466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy M. Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Degraded Speech

Severity of hyperacusis predicts individual differences in speech perception in Williams Syndrome

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 563-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elsabbagh ◽  
H. Cohen ◽  
M. Cohen ◽  
S. Rosen ◽  
A. Karmiloff-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Williams Syndrome

scholarly journals Rapid Perceptual Learning: A Potential Source of Individual Differences in Speech Perception Under Adverse Conditions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 233121652093054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tali Rotman ◽  
Limor Lavie ◽  
Karen Banai
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Rapid Learning ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
Speech In Noise ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Age Related Hearing Loss

Challenging listening situations (e.g., when speech is rapid or noisy) result in substantial individual differences in speech perception. We propose that rapid auditory perceptual learning is one of the factors contributing to those individual differences. To explore this proposal, we assessed rapid perceptual learning of time-compressed speech in young adults with normal hearing and in older adults with age-related hearing loss. We also assessed the contribution of this learning as well as that of hearing and cognition (vocabulary, working memory, and selective attention) to the recognition of natural-fast speech (NFS; both groups) and speech in noise (younger adults). In young adults, rapid learning and vocabulary were significant predictors of NFS and speech in noise recognition. In older adults, hearing thresholds, vocabulary, and rapid learning were significant predictors of NFS recognition. In both groups, models that included learning fitted the speech data better than models that did not include learning. Therefore, under adverse conditions, rapid learning may be one of the skills listeners could employ to support speech recognition.

scholarly journals A link between individual differences in multisensory speech perception and eye movements

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1333-1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demet Gurler ◽  
Nathan Doyle ◽  
Edgar Walker ◽  
John Magnotti ◽  
Michael Beauchamp
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Speech Perception

scholarly journals Speech Perception in Noise With Formant Enhancement for Older Listeners

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 3290-3301
Author(s):  
Jingjing Guan ◽  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Speech Signals ◽  
Speech Perception In Noise ◽  
Degraded Speech ◽  
Common Complaint ◽  
Hearing Thresholds ◽  
Speech Intelligibility Index ◽  
Speech Information

Purpose Degraded speech intelligibility in background noise is a common complaint of listeners with hearing loss. The purpose of the current study is to explore whether 2nd formant (F2) enhancement improves speech perception in noise for older listeners with hearing impairment (HI) and normal hearing (NH). Method Target words (e.g., color and digit) were selected and presented based on the paradigm of the coordinate response measure corpus. Speech recognition thresholds with original and F2-enhanced speech in 2- and 6-talker babble were examined for older listeners with NH and HI. Results The thresholds for both the NH and HI groups improved for enhanced speech signals primarily in 2-talker babble, but not in 6-talker babble. The F2 enhancement benefits did not correlate significantly with listeners' age and their average hearing thresholds in most listening conditions. However, speech intelligibility index values increased significantly with F2 enhancement in babble for listeners with HI, but not for NH listeners. Conclusions Speech sounds with F2 enhancement may improve listeners' speech perception in 2-talker babble, possibly due to a greater amount of speech information available in temporally modulated noise or a better capacity to separate speech signals from background babble.

Individual differences in speech perception in noise: A neurocognitive genetic study

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 2314-2314
Author(s):  
Zilong Xie ◽  
W. Todd Maddox ◽  
Valerie S. Knopik ◽  
John E. McGeary ◽  
Bharath Chandrasekaran
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Genetic Study ◽  
Speech Perception In Noise

Self-monitoring processes in simultaneous interpreting

FORUM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mária Bakti ◽  
Judit Bóna
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Production System ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Error Type ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Simultaneous Interpreting ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Language Output

Abstract In psycholinguistics there is an agreement that self-monitoring is part of the speech production system, it serves the repair of speech errors and disfluencies occurring during the process of speech production. During simultaneous interpreting, where source language speech perception and target language speech production happen simultaneously, the analysis of self-monitoring is of particular importance. In our study we compare self-monitoring processes in the target language texts, interpreted from English into Hungarian, of professional interpreters and trainee interpreters. We examine the frequency of incidence of error – type disfluencies, the editing phase of self-repairs, the frequency of incidence of disfluencies, and the editing phases of repetitions and restarts. Although our data have revealed considerable individual differences between interpreters, some tendencies can be detected. In general, differences can be detected in self-monitoring between professional and trainee interpreters. When compared to data about self-monitoring processes in spontaneous, monolingual Hungarian speech, we can state that there were far fewer phenomena connected to self-monitoring in the target language output of simultaneous interpreters than in monolingual Hungarian texts.

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