Listener effort for highly intelligible tracheoesophageal speech

Nagle, Kathleen F.; Eadie, Tanya L.

doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.01.001

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“…The aim was to investigate the differences in LE for a set of HS and OS speakers that have comparable intelligibility. As pointed out in [31], even highly intelligible OS speech was found to have different LE ratings. Therefore, this is a methodological decision in order to rule out that observed effects are due to differences in intelligibility.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…They found that HS was the most acceptable, followed by superior OS and then ELS. In [31], high-intelligibility TOS was played to listeners and they were asked to rate the effort of listening as well as acceptability for each sample and found an inverse correlation between LE and acceptability. Another observation from this study was that even highly intelligible speech can have varying listener effort.…”

Section: Listening Effortmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intelligibility and Listening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech

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Communication is a huge challenge for oesophageal speakers, be it for interactions with fellow humans or with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify these communication challenges (both human-human and human-machine interactions) by measuring intelligibility and Listening Effort (LE) of Oesophageal Speech (OS) in comparison to Healthy Laryngeal Speech (HS). We conducted two listening tests (one web-based, the other in laboratory settings) to collect these measurements. Participants performed a sentence recognition and LE rating task in each test. Intelligibility, calculated as Word Error Rate, showed significant correlation with self-reported LE ratings. Speaker type (healthy or oesophageal) had a major effect on intelligibility and effort. More LE was reported for OS compared to HS even when OS intelligibility was close to HS. Listeners familiar with OS reported less effort when listening to OS compared to nonfamiliar listeners. However, such advantage of familiarity was not observed for intelligibility. Automatic speech recognition scores were higher for OS compared to HS.

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Intelligibility and Listening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech

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“…For a comprehensive review of issues in intelligibility assessment clinicians should refer to the summary by Miller [27]. A further variable in quantifying intelligibility concerns listener effort, which aims to capture the extra burden of cognitive processing load for listeners interpreting altered speech and voice [28,29]. Intelligibility is an area warranting more detailed study to ensure the range of tracheoesophageal outcomes represent realistic, rather than clinical communication situations.…”

Section: Alaryngeal Perceptual Voice Scalesmentioning

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Voice outcomes post total laryngectomy

Hurren

Miller

2017

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology &Amp; Head &Amp; Neck Surgery

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“…The first author heard the speech stimuli multiple times to ensure that the chosen monologue samples were representative of the speaker's natural speech pattern. The selected speech stimuli were edited to be of approximately 2 s each in Audacity software (version 2.0.5), and each utterance consisted of one to two complete sentences, similar to previous studies (Nagle & Eadie, 2012;Spielman, Ramig, Mahler, Halpern, & Gavin, 2007;Tjaden & Wilding, 2004;Weismer & Laures, 2002). All stimuli were amplitude normalized, and speech-shaped noise was added for judgments of intelligibility.…”

Section: Speech Stimulimentioning

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Listener Perception of Monopitch, Naturalness, and Intelligibility for Speakers With Parkinson's Disease

Anand

Stepp

2015

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: Given the potential significance of speech naturalness to functional and social rehabilitation outcomes, the objective of this study was to examine the effect of listener perceptions of monopitch on speech naturalness and intelligibility in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Method: Two short utterances were extracted from monologue samples of 16 speakers with PD and 5 age-matched adults without PD. Sixteen listeners evaluated these stimuli for monopitch, speech naturalness and intelligibility using the visual sort and rate method.Results: Naïve listeners can reliably judge monopitch, speech naturalness, and intelligibility with minimal familiarization. While monopitch and speech intelligibility were only moderately correlated, monopitch and speech naturalness were highly correlated. Conclusions: A great deal of attention is currently being paid to improvement of vocal loudness and thus speech intelligibility in PD. Our findings suggest that prosodic characteristics such as monopitch should be explored as adjuncts to this treatment of dysarthria in PD. Development of such prosodic treatments may enhance speech naturalness and thus improve quality of life.

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Listener effort for highly intelligible tracheoesophageal speech

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

Intelligibility and Listening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech

Intelligibility and Listening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech

Voice outcomes post total laryngectomy

Listener Perception of Monopitch, Naturalness, and Intelligibility for Speakers With Parkinson's Disease

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