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 …

Facemasks are essential for healthcare workers but characteristics of the voice whilst
wearing this personal protective equipment are not well understood. In the present study, we …

In this overview we describe literature on how speech production and speech perception
change in healthy or normal aging across the adult lifespan. In the production section we …

This study quantified the effects of face masks on spectral speech acoustics in healthy
talkers using habitual, loud, and clear speaking styles. Harvard sentence lists were read …

When talkers anticipate that a listener may have difficulty understanding their speech, they
adopt a speaking style typically described as “clear speech.” This speaking style includes a …

Speakers tend to speak clearly in noisy environments, while they tend to reserve effort by
shortening word duration in predictable contexts. It is unclear how these two communicative …

The current study examined sentence recognition across speaking styles (conversational,
neutral, and clear) in quiet and multi-talker babble (MTB) for cochlear implant (CI) users and …

Abstract Objectives Protective facial coverings (PFCs) such as surgical masks attenuate
speech transmission and affect speech intelligibility, which is reported in languages such as …

Children and older adults have greater difficulty understanding speech when there are other
voices in the background (informational masking, IM) than when the interference is a steady …

Research on the adaptations talkers make to different communication conditions during
interactive conversations has primarily focused on speech signals. We extended this type of …