Effects of speaking style on speech intelligibility for Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users |
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Authors: | Li Yongxin Zhang Guoping Kang Hou-yong Liu Sha Han Deming Fu Qian-Jie |
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Affiliation: | Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China 100730. lyxent@hotmail.com |
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Abstract: | Cochlear implant (CI) users' speech understanding may be influenced by different speaking styles. In this study, speech recognition was measured in Mandarin-speaking CI and normal-hearing (NH) subjects for sentences produced according to four styles: slow, normal, fast, and whispered. CI subjects were tested using their clinical processors; NH subjects were tested while listening to a four-channel CI simulation. Performance gradually worsened with increasing speaking rate and was much poorer with whispered speech. CI performance was generally similar to NH performance with the four-channel simulation. Results suggest that some speaking styles, especially whispering, may negatively affect Mandarin-speaking CI users' speech understanding. |
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