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View article: MaBu19/paper-presage-testbattery: Code paper submission
MaBu19/paper-presage-testbattery: Code paper submission Open
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View article: A consistency measure for psychometric measurements
A consistency measure for psychometric measurements Open
Adaptive tracking procedures in psychophysics may produce erroneous, “untypical” results and non-converging tracks due to, e.g., inattention of the test subject or external disturbances. This paper presents a multi-state psychometric model…
View article: Influence of simulated spatial conditions and reverberation on speech intelligibility prediction accuracy with the Simulation Framework for Auditory Discrimination Experiments (FADE)
Influence of simulated spatial conditions and reverberation on speech intelligibility prediction accuracy with the Simulation Framework for Auditory Discrimination Experiments (FADE) Open
Considering complex acoustic scenes in rehabilitative audiology and hearing device assessments requires understanding the influence of multiple interacting factors. Speech intelligibility models provide a systematic way to explore and pred…
View article: Understanding the Lombard Effect for Mandarin: Relation Between Speech Recognition Thresholds and Acoustic Parameters
Understanding the Lombard Effect for Mandarin: Relation Between Speech Recognition Thresholds and Acoustic Parameters Open
The present work quantifies the Lombard effect across native speakers of Mandarin Chinese using the Matrix sentence test, which is optimized for precisely assessing speech recognition thresholds (SRTs) in noise. Specifically, we studied th…
View article: Objective Assessment of Binaural Benefit from Acoustical Treatment in Real Primary School Classrooms
Objective Assessment of Binaural Benefit from Acoustical Treatment in Real Primary School Classrooms Open
Providing students with an adequate acoustic environment is crucial for ensuring speech intelligibility in primary school classrooms. Two main approaches to control acoustics in educational facilities consist of reducing background noise a…
View article: Mandarin matrix sentence test recordings: Lombard and plain speech with different speakers
Mandarin matrix sentence test recordings: Lombard and plain speech with different speakers Open
This dataset was recorded within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project: Experiments and models of speech recognition across tonal and non-tonal language systems (EMSATON, Projektnummer 415895050). The Lombard effect or Lombard …
View article: Mandarin matrix sentence test recordings: Lombard and plain speech with different speakers
Mandarin matrix sentence test recordings: Lombard and plain speech with different speakers Open
This dataset was recorded within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project: Experiments and models of speech recognition across tonal and non-tonal language systems (EMSATON, Projektnummer 415895050). The Lombard effect or Lombard …
View article: Lombard Effect for Bilingual Speakers in Cantonese and English: importance of spectro-temporal features
Lombard Effect for Bilingual Speakers in Cantonese and English: importance of spectro-temporal features Open
For a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying speech perception and the contribution of different signal features, computational models of speech recognition have a long tradition in hearing research. Due to the diverse range of …
View article: Spatio-temporal Integration of Speech Reflections in Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Spatio-temporal Integration of Speech Reflections in Hearing-Impaired Listeners Open
Speech recognition in rooms requires the temporal integration of reflections which arrive with a certain delay after the direct sound. It is commonly assumed that there is a certain temporal window of about 50–100 ms, during which reflecti…
View article: Binaural Speech Intelligibility in a Real Elementary Classroom
Binaural Speech Intelligibility in a Real Elementary Classroom Open
Since the fundamental phases of the learning process take place in elementary classrooms, it is necessary to guarantee a proper acoustic environment for the listening activity to children immersed in them. In this framework, speech intelli…
View article: Effect of competitive acoustic environments on speech intelligibility
Effect of competitive acoustic environments on speech intelligibility Open
Excessive noise and reverberation times degrade listening abilities in everyday life environments. This is particularly true for school settings. Most classrooms in Italy are settled in historical buildings that generate competitive acoust…
View article: Contribution of Low-Level Acoustic and Higher-Level Lexical-Semantic Cues to Speech Recognition in Noise and Reverberation
Contribution of Low-Level Acoustic and Higher-Level Lexical-Semantic Cues to Speech Recognition in Noise and Reverberation Open
Masking noise and reverberation strongly influence speech intelligibility and decrease listening comfort. To optimize acoustics for ensuring a comfortable environment, it is crucial to understand the respective contribution of bottom-up si…
View article: Inference of the distortion component of hearing impairment from speech recognition by predicting the effect of the attenuation component
Inference of the distortion component of hearing impairment from speech recognition by predicting the effect of the attenuation component Open
A model-based determination of the average supra-threshold (“distortion”) component of hearing impairment which limits the benefit of hearing aid amplification. Published speech recognition thresholds (SRTs) were predicted with the framewo…
View article: Evaluation of Italian Simplified Matrix Test for Speech-Recognition Measurements in Noise
Evaluation of Italian Simplified Matrix Test for Speech-Recognition Measurements in Noise Open
This study aimed at the evaluation of a simplified Italian matrix test (SiIMax) for speech-recognition measurements in noise for adults and children. Speech-recognition measurements with adults and children were conducted to examine the tr…
View article: Inference of the distortion component of hearing impairment from speech recognition by predicting the effect of the attenuation component
Inference of the distortion component of hearing impairment from speech recognition by predicting the effect of the attenuation component Open
A model-based determination of the average supra-threshold (“distortion”) component of hearing impairment which limits the benefit of hearing aid amplification. Published speech recognition thresholds (SRTs) were predicted with the framewo…
View article: Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs) for single patient cases: deriving statistical models from an expert-labelled data set
Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs) for single patient cases: deriving statistical models from an expert-labelled data set Open
Objective: Statistical knowledge about many patients could be exploited using machine learning to provide supporting information to otolaryngologists and other hearing health care professionals, but needs to be made accessible. The Common …
View article: Individual Aided Speech-Recognition Performance and Predictions of Benefit for Listeners With Impaired Hearing Employing FADE
Individual Aided Speech-Recognition Performance and Predictions of Benefit for Listeners With Impaired Hearing Employing FADE Open
The benefit in speech-recognition performance due to the compensation of a hearing loss can vary between listeners, even if unaided performance and hearing thresholds are similar. To accurately predict the individual performance benefit du…
View article: The Benefit of Binaural Hearing Among Listeners with Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The Benefit of Binaural Hearing Among Listeners with Sensorineural Hearing Loss Open
The performance of binaural processing may be disturbed in the presence of hearing loss, especially of sensorineural type. To assess the impact of hearing loss on speech perception in noise regarding binaural processing, series of speech r…
View article: Measurement and Prediction of Binaural-Temporal Integration of Speech Reflections
Measurement and Prediction of Binaural-Temporal Integration of Speech Reflections Open
For speech intelligibility in rooms, the temporal integration of speech reflections is typically modeled by separating the room impulse response (RIR) into an early (assumed beneficial for speech intelligibility) and a late part (assumed d…
View article: Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs): statistical and compact representation of rehabilitative audiological classification based on expert knowledge
Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs): statistical and compact representation of rehabilitative audiological classification based on expert knowledge Open
Objective: As a step towards objectifying audiological rehabilitation and providing comparability between different test batteries and clinics, the Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs) were introduced as a common and abstract…
View article: Contributions of Low- and High-Frequency Sensorineural Hearing Deficits to Speech Intelligibility in Noise
Contributions of Low- and High-Frequency Sensorineural Hearing Deficits to Speech Intelligibility in Noise Open
The degree to which supra-threshold hearing deficits affect speech recognition in noise is poorly understood. To clarify the role of hearing sensitivity in different stimulus frequency ranges, and to test the contribution of low- and high-…
View article: Objective Prediction of Hearing Aid Benefit Across Listener Groups Using Machine Learning: Speech Recognition Performance With Binaural Noise-Reduction Algorithms
Objective Prediction of Hearing Aid Benefit Across Listener Groups Using Machine Learning: Speech Recognition Performance With Binaural Noise-Reduction Algorithms Open
The simulation framework for auditory discrimination experiments (FADE) was adopted and validated to predict the individual speech-in-noise recognition performance of listeners with normal and impaired hearing with and without a given hear…
View article: Age-Related Differences in Lexical Access Relate to Speech Recognition in Noise
Age-Related Differences in Lexical Access Relate to Speech Recognition in Noise Open
Vocabulary size has been suggested as a useful measure of "verbal abilities" that correlates with speech recognition scores. Knowing more words is linked to better speech recognition. How vocabulary knowledge translates to general speech r…
View article: The speech audiometry using the matrix sentence test
The speech audiometry using the matrix sentence test Open
The matrix sentence test in which the five-word semantically unpredictable sentences presented under the background noise conditions are used as the speech material was designed and validated for many languages. The objective of the presen…
View article: Sentence Recognition Prediction for Hearing-impaired Listeners in Stationary and Fluctuation Noise With FADE
Sentence Recognition Prediction for Hearing-impaired Listeners in Stationary and Fluctuation Noise With FADE Open
To characterize the individual patient’s hearing impairment as obtained with the matrix sentence recognition test, a simulation Framework for Auditory Discrimination Experiments (FADE) is extended here using the Attenuation and Distortion …