Effects of speaking style on speech intelligibility for Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users | Zendy

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Effects of speaking style on speech intelligibility for Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users

Author(s) -

Yongxin Li,

Guoping Zhang,

Houyong Kang,

Sha Liu,

Deming Han,

QianJie Fu

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.3582148

Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , cochlear implant , active listening , audiology , intelligibility (philosophy) , psychology , affect (linguistics) , speech perception , cochlear implantation , speech recognition , perception , medicine , computer science , linguistics , communication , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience

Cochlear implant (CI) users' speech understanding may be influenced by different speaking styles. In this study, speech recognition was measured in Mandarin-speaking CI and normal-hearing (NH) subjects for sentences produced according to four styles: slow, normal, fast, and whispered. CI subjects were tested using their clinical processors; NH subjects were tested while listening to a four-channel CI simulation. Performance gradually worsened with increasing speaking rate and was much poorer with whispered speech. CI performance was generally similar to NH performance with the four-channel simulation. Results suggest that some speaking styles, especially whispering, may negatively affect Mandarin-speaking CI users' speech understanding.

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