NDLI: Talker differences in clear and conversational speech: vowel intelligibility for older adults with hearing loss.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Ferguson, Sarah Hargus
Description	Country affiliation: United States Author Affiliation: Ferguson SH ( University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA. sarah.ferguson@hsc.utah.edu)
Abstract	PURPOSE: To establish the range of talker variability for vowel intelligibility in clear versus conversational speech for older adults with hearing loss and to determine whether talkers who produced a clear speech benefit for young listeners with normal hearing also did so for older adults with hearing loss. METHOD: Clear and conversational vowels in /bVd/ context produced by 41 talkers were presented in noise for identification by 40 older (ages 65-87 years) adults with sloping sensorineural hearing loss. RESULTS: Vowel intelligibility within each speaking style and the size of the clear speech benefit varied widely among talkers. The clear speech benefit was equivalent to that enjoyed by young listeners with normal hearing in an earlier study. Most talkers who had produced a clear speech benefit for young listeners with normal hearing also did so for the older listeners with hearing loss in the present study. However, effects of talker gender differed between listeners with normal hearing and listeners with hearing loss. CONCLUSION: The clear speech vowel intelligibility benefit generated for listeners with hearing loss varied considerably among talkers. Most talkers who produced a clear speech benefit for normal-hearing listeners also produced a benefit for listeners with hearing loss.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	10924388
e-ISSN	15589102
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0342)
Journal	Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	55
Language	English
Publisher	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Publisher Date	2012-06-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Discipline Audiology Hearing Loss, Sensorineural Physiopathology Speech Discrimination Tests Speech Intelligibility Physiology Speech Perception Phonetics Sex Factors Voice Research Support, N.i.h., Extramural
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine Speech and Hearing Linguistics and Language

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