Clear speech perception: Linguistic and cognitive benefits

R Smiljanic - The handbook of speech perception, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter focuses on the characteristics and effectiveness of clear speech (CS) aimed at
enhancing intelligibility for adult interlocutors with perceptual difficulties arising from hearing …

Deep-learning-based audio-visual speech enhancement in presence of Lombard effect

D Michelsanti, ZH Tan, S Sigurdsson, J Jensen - Speech Communication, 2019 - Elsevier
When speaking in presence of background noise, humans reflexively change their way of
speaking in order to improve the intelligibility of their speech. This reflex is known as …

Cross-modal association between auditory and visuospatial information in Mandarin tone perception in noise by native and non-native perceivers

B Hannah, Y Wang, A Jongman, JA Sereno… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Speech perception involves multiple input modalities. Research has indicated that
perceivers establish cross-modal associations between auditory and visuospatial events to …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of the Lombard effect on audio and visual speech recognition systems

R Marxer, J Barker, N Alghamdi, S Maddock - Speech communication, 2018 - Elsevier
When producing speech in noisy backgrounds talkers reflexively adapt their speaking style
in ways that increase speech-in-noise intelligibility. This adaptation, known as the Lombard …

Computer-vision analysis reveals facial movements made during Mandarin tone production align with pitch trajectories

S Garg, G Hamarneh, A Jongman, JA Sereno… - Speech …, 2019 - Elsevier
Using computer-vision and image processing techniques, we aim to identify specific visual
cues as induced by facial movements made during Mandarin tone production and examine …

Visual scanning patterns of a talking face when evaluating phonetic information in a native and non-native language

X Deng, E McClay, E Jastrzebski, Y Wang, HH Yeung - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
When comprehending speech, listeners can use information encoded in visual cues from a
face to enhance auditory speech comprehension. For example, prior work has shown that …

Multi-modal perception of tone

Y Wang, JA Sereno, A Jongman - Speech perception, production and …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter surveys the role of visual cues in Chinese lexical tone production and
perception, addressing the extent to which visual information involves either linguistically …

Multi-modal cross-linguistic perception of Mandarin tones in clear speech

Y Zeng, KKW Leung, A Jongman, JA Sereno… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Clearly enunciated speech (relative to conversational, plain speech) involves articulatory
and acoustic modifications that enhance auditory–visual (AV) segmental intelligibility …

Cross-linguistic perception of clearly spoken English tense and lax vowels based on auditory, visual, and auditory-visual information

C Redmon, K Leung, Y Wang, B McMurray… - Journal of phonetics, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of clear speech on the integration of auditory and visual cues to the tense-lax
vowel distinction in English was investigated in native and non-native (Mandarin) …

Reading aloud in clear speech reduces sentence recognition memory and recall for native and non-native talkers

S Keerstock, R Smiljanic - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Speaking style variation plays a role in how listeners remember speech. Compared to
conversational sentences, clearly spoken sentences were better recalled and identified as …