Effects of Discourse Context on the Intelligibility of Synthesized Speech for Young Adult and Older Adult Listeners: Applications for AAC

This study investigated whether discourse context affected the intelligibility of synthesized sentences for young adult and older adult listeners. Findings indicated a significant facilitating effect of context wherein previous words and sentences are related to later sentences for both listener gro...

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Published inJournal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 1052 - 1057
Main Authors Drager, Kathryn D. R, Reichle, Joe E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Rockville, MD ASHA 01.10.2001
American Speech Language Hearing Association
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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Summary:This study investigated whether discourse context affected the intelligibility of synthesized sentences for young adult and older adult listeners. Findings indicated a significant facilitating effect of context wherein previous words and sentences are related to later sentences for both listener groups. Results have direct implications for augmentative and alternative communication system message transmission. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)
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ISSN:1092-4388
1558-9102
DOI:10.1044/1092-4388(2001/083)