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Pasquale Bottalico; Silvia Murgia; Taylor Mekus; Mary Flaherty – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to assess the acoustical conditions in which optimal intelligibility and low listening difficulty can be achieved in real classrooms for elementary students, taking into consideration the effects of dysphonic voice and typical classroom noise. Method: Speech intelligibility tests were performed in six…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Classroom Environment, Voice Disorders, Intelligibility
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Ma, Estella P.-M.; Tse, Mandy M.-S.; Momenian, Mohammad; Pu, Dai; Chen, Felix F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of dysphonic voice on speech intelligibility in Cantonese-speaking adults. Method: Speech recordings from three speakers with dysphonia secondary to phonotrauma and three speakers with healthy voices were presented to 30 healthy listeners (15 men and 15 women; M[subscript age] = 22.7 years) under…
Descriptors: Voice Disorders, Trauma, Auditory Stimuli, Intelligibility
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Lass, Norman J.; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1991
This investigation compared 19 adolescents' perceptions of the nonspeech personality characteristics of voice-disordered and normal-speaking children. Listeners, who rated recorded speech samples, showed a significant tendency to judge the normal speakers more positively than the voice-disordered speakers. Results suggest developmental trends in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Audience Response, Child Development