Journal Reviews

Virtual human speaker

1 February 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Adult | Speech perception, auditory-visual speech, behavioural measures, instrumentation, psychoacoustics/hearing science, virtual humans

The aim of the discussed study was to develop and evaluate a 3D virtual speaker that could use pre-recorded audio-material and possibly be used for audio-visual speech testing in the future. The authors developed the terminal-analogue method that allows to...

British English speech test for occupational hearing assessment

1 January 2018 | | auditory fitness for duty, Speech perception, behavioural measures, noise, psychoacoustics/hearing science

It is very important to properly assess occupational fitness for several occupations such as police officer, military personnel or fire fighter. The aim of this study was to develop a British English speech in noise (SiN) test as a tool...