In compressed speech listening tests, performance was not significantly affected by listening aids presented during training. The aids consisted of a summary of the material to be heard and a list of key words in the material to be heard; the summary was presented to one group and the list of key words to another group. A third group did not…

The studies reported here are a continuation of research into the comprehension of time-compressed speech by normal college students. In the Listening Aid Study II, an experiment was designed to retest the advantages of the precis as a listening aid when the precis expressed the overall meaning of a passage. Also, a new listening aid was…