and intelligibility
World Englishes and Intelligibility in English-Medium Classrooms
... Thus, intelligibility of the available Englishes should be viewed as a key element in the process of content knowledge ...speech intelligibility, the current study quantitatively examines which Englishes ...
14
Evaluating Intelligibility in Human Translation and Machine Translation
... The Interview Protocol was prepared based on literature review. This was carried out first by identifying and selecting the criteria for evaluation of human and machine translation. They were included as a guideline to ...
14
Speech Intelligibility in Persian Children with Down Syndrome
... and intelligibility ratings was significant at the ...speech intelligibility ratings (easier to understand speech) than boys ...speech intelligibility ratings was significant at the ...speech ...
5
On detectable and meaningful speech intelligibility benefits
... mean Intelligibility JND estimate for digits was ...and Intelligibility JNDs were significantly less using digits in un- filtered random (white) noise than sentences in same-spectrum noise [t (23) = ...the ...
9
Intelligibility of Reverberant Speech with Amplification: Limitation of Speech Intelligibility Metrics, and a Preliminary Examination of an Alternative Approach
... The negative relationship between high speech level and intelligibility is often explained by auditory spectral masking—because it becomes stronger with louder sound. InSTI, the masking intensity at an octave ...
10
Is spatial intelligibility critical to the design of largescale virtual environments?
... Finally, in (Darken and Sibert 1996), Darken also attempts to use some of Lynch's principles in order to investigate their effect upon wayfinding (this is in addition to his earlier work on landmarks and grids). In ...
16
Effects of Instantaneous Multiband Dynamic Compression on Speech Intelligibility
... speech intelligibility tests, the instantaneous dynamic compression scheme was compared against a linear amplification scheme, which used the same filterbank for frequency analysis, but employed constant gain ...
10
Mutual Information Based Analysis and Prediction of Speech Intelligibility
... speech intelligibility prediction methods have the main aim of predicting speech intelligibility of noisy/processed speech ...speech intelligibility can be defined as “The quality of the signal” or ...
8
Acoustic transformations to improve the intelligibility of dysarthric speech
... the intelligibility of our mod- ifications, we designed a simple experiment in which human listeners attempt to identify words in sentence-level utterances under a number of acoustic ...
11
Exploring Intelligibility in Tracheoesophageal Speech: A Descriptive Analysis
... decreased intelligibility that may exist across TE ...that intelligibility issues commonly arise in the areas of voiced-voiceless distinctions of consonants, as well as for fricatives and ...the ...
103
Evaluation of TTS Systems in Intelligibility and Comprehension Tasks
... The intelligibility task was taken first and then the comprehension ...than intelligibility test, which participants needed to answer questions rather than type out what they ...the intelligibility ...
15
The effects of screen size on intelligibility in multimodal communication
... The main study explored the main hypothesis (R1). This was tested by presenting the auditory stimulus with the SNR of -9dB and the visual stimulus at three different screen sizes (mobile phone, PDA and monitor), and ...
14
Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe
... mutual intelligibility of closely related languages within the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language groups in Europe in a large-scale web- based ...the intelligibility of spoken text among educated ...
26
Mathematical model of speech intelligibility in mosque with column pillars
... speech intelligibility describes the ability to distinguish the structure of the speech sound, and to be able to hear the consonants or vowels of a word without ...Speech intelligibility is established when ...
34
Speech intelligibility after repair of cleft lip and palate
... Based on the Age & Stage Questionnaire, the control group’s scores on communication, fine motor, gross mo- tor, personal, social, and problem-solving skills were within normal limits. Each domain was scored ...
5
Effects of pause insertion on the intelligibility of low quality speech
... After concluding that pausing after phrase final words is the best strategy for improving intelligibility, we predict that recognition of short (monosyllabic) words will be easier when t[r] ...
8
The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties
... mutual intelligibility of Sidamo dialects, the degree of mutual intelligibility among various varieties and the attitude of the speakers towards each others’ varieties has not been thoroughly in- ...mutual ...
8
Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects tested functionally
... We designed two tests: one at the level of isolated words, the other at the sen- tence level. The word-intelligibility test was developed from scratch. It affords fast and economical testing of the recognition of ...
12
Predicting speech intelligibility
... stimuli may be useful in evaluating impaired hearing and in guiding the design of hearing aids. Work by Bruce et al. [9] compared the amplification schemes of National Acoustics Laboratory, Revised (NAL-R) and Desired ...
141
On the Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibility
... We propose a method for computing the similarity of natural languages and for clustering them based on their lexical similarity. Our study provides evidence to be used in the investigation of the written ...
6