Abstract To address Industry 4.0, service-oriented manufacturing unifies the development
track of product development and service innovation and constructs a high-quality …

Speech intelligibility (SI) measurement has attracted great attention in the speech
communication community over the last decade. It is a critical consideration for speech …

Digital technology holds a promise to improve older adults' well-being and promote ageing
in place. However, there seems to be a discrepancy between digital technologies that are …

Older adults frequently report they can hear what is said but cannot understand the
meaning, especially in noise. This difficulty may arise from the inability to process rapidly …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

Listening to speech in noise can be exhausting, especially for older adults with impaired
hearing. Pupil dilation is thought to track the difficulty associated with listening to speech at …

Spoken language unfolds over time. Consequently, there are brief periods of ambiguity,
when incomplete input can match many possible words. Typical listeners solve this problem …

Background Oral‐diadochokinesis (oral‐DDK) tasks are extensively used in the evaluation
of motor speech abilities. Currently, validated normative data for older adults (aged 65 years …

Cross-sectional studies of cognitive aging compare age groups at 1 time point. It is unclear
from such studies whether age-related cognitive differences remain stable across time. We …

There is ample evidence that recognising words in a non-native language is more difficult
than in a native language, even for those with a high proficiency in the non-native language …