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Effects of training and using an audio-tactile sensory substitution device on speech-in-noise understanding
Understanding speech in background noise is challenging. Wearing face-masks, imposed by the COVID19-pandemics, makes it even harder. We developed a...
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Gammatonegram representation for end-to-end dysarthric speech processing tasks: speech recognition, speaker identification, and intelligibility assessment
Dysarthria is a disability that causes a disturbance in the human speech system and reduces the quality and intelligibility of a person’s speech....
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Speech assessment tool methods for speech impaired children: a systematic literature review on the state-of-the-art in Speech impairment analysis
Speech is a powerful, natural mode of communication that facilitates effective interactions in human societies. However, when fluency or flow of...
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SARAspeech—Feasibility of automated assessment of ataxic speech disturbance
Ataxias are a group of movement disorders that are characterized by progressive loss of balance, impaired coordination and speech disturbance, which...
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The impact of politicians’ behaviors on hate speech spread: hate speech adoption threshold on Twitter in Japan
In this paper, we hypothesized that a leading politician’s behavior signaling support for the ideas of hate groups will increase hate speech by...
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Dismantling Hate: Understanding Hate Speech Trends Against NBA Athletes
Social media has emerged as a popular platform for sports fans to express their opinions regarding athletes’ performance. The National Basketball...
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Speech auditory brainstem responses (s-ABRs) as a new approach for the assessment of speech sounds coding
BackgroundThe evoked auditory brainstem response (EABR) is an objective electrophysiological test used to assess the brainstem’s auditory neural...
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Speech characteristics yield important clues about motor function: Speech variability in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis
Background and hypothesis: Motor abnormalities are predictive of psychosis onset in individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis and are...
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Speech Perception in Noise and Medial Olivocochlear Reflex: Effects of Age, Speech Stimulus, and Response-Related Variables
PurposeThe role of the medial olivocochlear system in speech perception in noise has been debated over the years, with studies showing mixed results....
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Speech Emotion Recognition Using Magnitude and Phase Features
For the majority of people, speaking is a natural method to interact with others, and speech is a tool for understanding others. Speech Utterances...
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Genetic architecture of childhood speech disorder: a review
Severe speech disorders lead to poor literacy, reduced academic attainment and negative psychosocial outcomes. As early as the 1950s, the familial...
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Criminalisation as a Speech-Act: Saying Through Criminalising
The act of criminalising conduct has been understood by many theorists as a form of communication. This paper proposes a model, based on speech-act...
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Psychological Features of the Development Speech Motives and Speech Motivation of 5–6-Year-Old Children
In the described empirical study of the age-specific motivational and speech processes of children aged 5–6, the psycholinguistic approach was used,...
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An approach for speech enhancement with dysarthric speech recognition using optimization based machine learning frameworks
Dysarthric speech is the noisy or source distortion speech. Reasonable speech enhancement is required to obtain higher communication quality for...
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Perception of vocoded speech in domestic dogs
Humans have an impressive ability to comprehend signal-degraded speech; however, the extent to which comprehension of degraded speech relies on...
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Listening to speech-in-noise with hearing aids: Do the self-reported outcomes reflect the behavioral speech perception task performance?
BackgroundThe aim of this study is to examine the relationship between behavioral speech-in-noise listening tasks and self-reported speech-in-noise...
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Should Democracies Ban Hate Speech? Hate Speech Laws and Counterspeech
The paper’s main goal is to compare laws banning hate speech with counterspeech as an effective method of curtailing hate speech. In the first part,...
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Spectral Grou** of Electrically Encoded Sound Predicts Speech-in-Noise Performance in Cochlear Implantees
ObjectivesCochlear implant (CI) users exhibit large variability in understanding speech in noise. Past work in CI users found that spectral and...
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Unsupervised phoneme segmentation of continuous Arabic speech
The development of a speech recognition system for the Arabic language presents a significant challenge, mainly due to the limited availability of...
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Unveiling hidden factors: explainable AI for feature boosting in speech emotion recognition
Speech emotion recognition (SER) has gained significant attention due to its several application fields, such as mental health, education, and...
