Ishikawa, Keiko Webster, JosseMia Ketring, Corey
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Clinical linguistics & phonetics
Dysphonia negatively affects a speaker's intelligibility, especially in noisy environments. Previously, our study showed this effect of dysphonia with the transcription-based intelligibility measurement. While this finding indicates the importance of intelligibility assessment for this population, implementing the transcription-based measurement ma...
Carvalho, Joana Cardoso, Rita Guimarães, Isabel Ferreira, Joaquim J
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Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology
Speech intelligibility, how well a listener comprehends the speaker's message, is related to the listener' expertise and type of the message conveyed. There is no evidence about speech intelligibility in different groups of healthcare professionals and naïve listeners. This study is the first to understand if there were differences in the speech in...
Seifert, Miriam Davies, Amy Harding, Sam McLeod, Sharynne Wren, Yvonne
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The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
To provide comparison data on the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) for a sample of 3-year-old English-speaking children born with any cleft type. Questionnaire data from the Cleft Collective Cohort Study were used. Descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out to determine difference according to children's cleft type and syndromic ...
raman, sneha sarasola, xabier navas, eva hernaez, inma
Pathological speech such as Oesophageal Speech (OS) is difficult to understand due to the presence of undesired artefacts and lack of normal healthy speech characteristics. Modern speech technologies and machine learning enable us to transform pathological speech to improve intelligibility and quality. We have used a neural network based voice conv...
Ghosh, Monica Levis, John M.
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Frontiers in Communication
The use of suprasegmental cues to word stress occurs across many languages. Nevertheless, L1 English listeners' pay little attention to suprasegmental word stress cues and evidence shows that segmental cues are more important to L1 English listeners in how words are identified in speech. L1 English listeners assume strong syllables with full vowels...
Chiu, Yi Neel, Amy Loux, Travis
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Clinical linguistics & phonetics
Decreased speech intelligibility in noisy environments is frequently observed in speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD). This study investigated which acoustic characteristics across the speech subsystems contributed to poor intelligibility in noise for speakers with PD. Speech samples were obtained from 13 speakers with PD and five healthy control...
Singleton, David
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Linguistics Vanguard
When intra-individual variation in language use is discussed it tends to be seen as not having much significance. The recognizability of the relation of variants to each other is (usually tacitly) acknowledged; intra-individual variation is often attributed to influence across different varieties of the language in question (and, in L2 variation, a...
WALLKÖTTER, SEBASTIAN Tulli, Silvia Castellano, Ginevra Paiva, Ana Chetouani, Mohamed
The issue of how to make embodied agents explainable has experienced a surge of interest over the last three years, and, there are many terms that refer to this concept, e.g., transparency or legibility. One reason for this high variance in terminology is the unique array of social cues that embodied agents can access in contrast to that accessed b...
Leon, Michelle Washington, Karla N Fritz, Kristina A Leon, Marco Basinger, Melanie Crowe, Kathryn
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Clinical linguistics & phonetics
The present study investigated the sensitivity and specificity of the English Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) and the ICS-Jamaican Creole (ICS-JC) translation with bilingual preschool-aged Jamaican children. Participants in this study were 262 English-Jamaican Creole simultaneous bilingual children (aged 3;3 to 6;3, M = 4;11, SD = 7.8). The ...
Henderson, Alice
The synthesis volume entitled Intelligibility and identity: From teaching pronunciation to training for spoken language variation comprises four parts. The first retraces the development of the author’s professional stance as a language teacher (particularly within an EFL context) and her theoretical stance as a researcher working in the phonodidac...
