ASR-based speech intelligibility prediction: A review

M Karbasi, D Kolossa - Hearing Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Various types of methods and approaches are available to predict the intelligibility of speech
signals, but many of these still suffer from two major problems: first, their required prior …

[HTML][HTML] On the possible overestimation of cognitive decline: the impact of age-related hearing loss on cognitive-test performance

C Füllgrabe - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Individual differences and age-related normal and pathological changes in mental abilities
require the use of cognitive screening and assessment tools. However, simultaneously …

[HTML][HTML] Noise, age, and gender effects on speech intelligibility and sentence comprehension for 11-to 13-year-old children in real classrooms

N Prodi, C Visentin, E Borella, IC Mammarella… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of type of noise, age, and gender on
children's speech intelligibility (SI) and sentence comprehension (SC). The experiment was …

Predicting speech perception in older listeners with sensorineural hearing loss using automatic speech recognition

L Fontan, T Cretin-Maitenaz, C Füllgrabe - Trends in hearing, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of this study was to provide proof of concept that the speech intelligibility in
quiet of unaided older hearing-impaired (OHI) listeners can be predicted by automatic …

Unsupervised uncertainty measures of automatic speech recognition for non-intrusive speech intelligibility prediction

Z Tu, N Ma, J Barker - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04288, 2022 - arxiv.org
Non-intrusive intelligibility prediction is important for its application in realistic scenarios,
where a clean reference signal is difficult to access. The construction of many non-intrusive …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic speech recognition in neurodegenerative disease

BG Schultz, VSA Tarigoppula, G Noffs, S Rojas… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) could potentially improve communication by providing
transcriptions of speech in real time. ASR is particularly useful for people with progressive …

[HTML][HTML] Deep neural network model of hearing-impaired speech-in-noise perception

S Haro, CJ Smalt, GA Ciccarelli… - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Many individuals struggle to understand speech in listening scenarios that include
reverberation and background noise. An individual's ability to understand speech arises …

Exploiting hidden representations from a DNN-based speech recogniser for speech intelligibility prediction in hearing-impaired listeners

Z Tu, N Ma, J Barker - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04287, 2022 - arxiv.org
An accurate objective speech intelligibility prediction algorithms is of great interest for many
applications such as speech enhancement for hearing aids. Most algorithms measures the …

Can we use speaker embeddings on spontaneous speech obtained from medical conversations to predict intelligibility?

S Quintas, M Balaguer, J Mauclair… - 2023 IEEE Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic prediction of speech intelligibility is a recurrent problem in the context of
pathological speech. Despite recent developments, these systems are normally applied to …

Automatic extraction of speech rhythm descriptors for speech intelligibility assessment in the context of Head and Neck Cancers

R Vaysse, J Farinas, C Astésano… - INTERSPEECH …, 2021 - ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science
The temporal dimension of speech acoustics is rarely taken into account in automatic
models for Speech Intelligibility evaluation, although the rhythmic recurrence of phonemes …