Effect of face mask on voice production during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review

S Shekaraiah, K Suresh - Journal of Voice, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global
pandemic and wearing face mask is recommended across the globe to break the …

The relative contribution of cochlear synaptopathy and reduced inhibition to age-related hearing impairment for people with normal audiograms

M Gómez-Álvarez, PT Johannesen… - Trends in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Older people often show auditory temporal processing deficits and speech-in-noise
intelligibility difficulties even when their audiogram is clinically normal. The causes of such …

Influence of surgical and N95 face masks on speech perception and listening effort in noise

T Rahne, L Fröhlich, S Plontke, L Wagner - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Daily-life conversation relies on speech perception in quiet and noise. Because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, face masks have become mandatory in many situations. Acoustic …

A multi-resolution envelope-power based model for speech intelligibility

S Jørgensen, SD Ewert, T Dau - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The speech-based envelope power spectrum model (sEPSM) presented by Jørgensen and
Dau [(2011). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 1475–1487] estimates the envelope power signal-to …

Predictors of hearing-aid outcomes

EA Lopez-Poveda, PT Johannesen… - Trends in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Over 360 million people worldwide suffer from disabling hearing loss. Most of them can be
treated with hearing aids. Unfortunately, performance with hearing aids and the benefit …

A 90 nm CMOS, $6\{\upmu {\text {W}}} $ Power-Proportional Acoustic Sensing Frontend for Voice Activity Detection

KMH Badami, S Lauwereins, W Meert… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a sub-6 μW acoustic frontend for speech/non-speech classification in a
voice activity detection (VAD) in 90 nm CMOS. Power consumption of the VAD system is …

Masked speech perception across the adult lifespan: Impact of age and hearing impairment

T Goossens, C Vercammen, J Wouters… - Hearing research, 2017 - Elsevier
As people grow older, speech perception difficulties become highly prevalent, especially in
noisy listening situations. Moreover, it is assumed that speech intelligibility is more affected …

Evidence for age-related cochlear synaptopathy in humans unconnected to speech-in-noise intelligibility deficits

PT Johannesen, BC Buzo, EA Lopez-Poveda - Hearing research, 2019 - Elsevier
Cochlear synaptopathy (or the loss of primary auditory synapses) remains a subclinical
condition of uncertain prevalence. Here, we investigate whether it affects humans and …

Predicting speech intelligibility with deep neural networks

C Spille, SD Ewert, B Kollmeier, BT Meyer - Computer Speech & Language, 2018 - Elsevier
An accurate objective prediction of human speech intelligibility is of interest for many
applications such as the evaluation of signal processing algorithms. To predict the speech …

Development of an adaptive scaling method for subjective listening effort

M Krueger, M Schulte, T Brand, I Holube - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
An adaptive procedure for controlling the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when rating the
subjectively perceived listening effort (Adaptive Categorical Listening Effort Scaling) is …