Publicaties

Objective: In persons with a speech pathology, improved intelligibility is the fundamental goal of treatment. Identification of specific phonetic features that affect intelligibility, contributes to selecting intervention targets. The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether a segmental analysis based on a perceptual phoneme intelligibility assessment is reliable and can be used for target selection. Secondly, the hypothesis that ...

When speech is presented through loudspeakers in a noisy environment, the background noise can significantly decrease speech intelligibility. Because the amplitude and spectrum of the background noise can vary over time (and because high loudness levels are to be avoided for listener comfort), choosing proper speech equalization and master gain settings for a public address system can be a difficult task. In this paper, we propose an adaptive ...

Users often become frustrated when they are unable to understand and control a ubicomp environment. Previous work has suggested that ubicomp systems should be intelligible to allow users to understand how the system works and controllable to let users intervene when the system makes a mistake. In this paper, we identify several design considerations for supporting intelligibility and control in ubicomp environments. We show these ...

Objective: To investigate the impact of the oral health status on speech intelligibility, articulation and quality of life of older community-dwelling people. Background To our knowledge, there have been no studies on this topic in patients aged 75 years or older.Material and methods: Thirty outpatients of a university dental clinic (median [IQR] age of 77.00 [75-82] years) participated. The OHIP-14, a dental examination, a speech ...