We can recognize familiar people by their voices, and familiar talkers are more intelligible
than unfamiliar talkers when competing talkers are present. However, whether the acoustic …

Purpose: The goal was to evaluate whether implicit talker familiarization via an interactive
computer game, designed for this study, could improve children's word recognition in …

When people listen to speech in noisy places, they can understand more words spoken by
someone familiar, such as a friend or partner, than someone unfamiliar. Yet we know little …

Understanding speech in adverse conditions is affected by experience—a familiar voice is
substantially more intelligible than an unfamiliar voice when competing speech is present …

When speech is masked by competing sound, people are better at understanding what is
said if the talker is familiar compared to unfamiliar. The benefit is robust, but how does …

Selective attention to one speaker in multi-talker environments can be affected by the
acoustic and semantic properties of speech. One highly ecological feature of speech that …

This study examined whether song lyrics and their semantic meaning interfere with speech
intelligibility. In three experiments, a total of 108 native Dutch participants listened to Dutch …

Objectives This study investigated the influence of long-term talker familiarity on speech-in-
speech recognition in school-age children, with a specific emphasis on the role of familiarity …

Listeners can perceive a person's age from their voice with above chance accuracy. Studies
have usually established this by asking listeners to directly estimate the age of unfamiliar …

Speech is more intelligible when it is spoken by familiar than unfamiliar people. If this benefit
arises because key voice characteristics like perceptual correlates of fundamental frequency …