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This study focuses on children’s cognitive capability within the framework of cognitive infocommunication. Speech processing works in quasi-parallel in time between hearing and speech comprehension. Hierarchical operations are decisive for elaboration of the speech signal. To test children’s speech processing quickly and reliably is of great importance both for language acquisition and for learning to read and write. Specific speech synthesis using sufficient, but not redundant spectral cues highlight hearing and global speech perception processes. 644 monolingual Hungarian children aged between 4 and 8 years participated in the study. 20 monosyllables were specially synthesized based on a set of pre-determined spectral values. Children were asked to repeat what they heard. The combination of speech synthesis as information and communication technology with the study of cognitive capabilities is a new direction in research and practice. Our results show that the great majority of children were confirmed to have good hearing (about 95%), while some children had a previously unknown hearing impairment. More than 30% of all children encountered speech perception deficit, despite good hearing. Digital technology including speech synthesis has reshaped both speech science and its cognitive connections to get closer to a proper interpretation of the mechanisms analyzed.

Evaluation of Cognitive Processes using Synthesized Words: Screening of Hearing and Global Speech Perception