PURPOSE To study the effect of noise on speech rate judgment and signal-to-noise ratio threshold (SNR50) at different speech rates (slow, preferred, and fast). RESEARCH DESIGN Speech rate judgment and SNR50 tasks were completed in a normal-hearing condition and a simulated hearing-loss condition. STUDY SAMPLE Twenty-four female and six male young, normal-hearing participants. RESULTS Speech rate judgment was not affected by background noise regardless of hearing condition. Results of the SNR50 task indicated that, as speech rate increased, performance decreased for both hearing conditions. There was a moderate correlation between speech rate judgment and SNR50 with the various speech rates, such that as judgment of speech rate increased from too slow to too fast, performance deteriorated. CONCLUSIONS These findings can be used to support the need for counseling patients and their families about the potential advantages to using average speech rates or rates that are slightly slowed while conversing in the presence of background noise.

Effects of speech rate, background noise, and simulated hearing loss on speech rate judgment and speech intelligibility in young listeners.

This study investigated the effects of listening condition on speech rate judgment. Four listening conditions, in which a single sentence was presented at 21 speech rates ranging from 90 wpm to 250 wpm, were incorporated. These conditions included non-degraded, reverberation, band-pass filtered, and low-pass filtered conditions, each of which was selected to simulate listening conditions one might encounter in daily life. The participants were 20 young adults (20 to 40 years) with normal hearing. They were asked to make judgments of the rates of speech randomly presented in the four listening conditions using an equal-interval 5-step scale from too slow through too fast. Overall, speech rate was judged to be faster in the reverberant condition than in the other three conditions. These findings may have implications for auditory rehabilitation and counseling.

Effects of reverberation and filtering on speech rate judgment

A correlational study of listening rate preferences and listener's oral reading rates.

AUTHOR Olson, Janet S.; Berry, Louis H. TITLE The State of the Art in Rate-Modified Speech: A Review of Contemporary Research. PUB DATE May 82 NOTE 36p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Research and Theory Division (Dallas, TX, May 1982). For other papers, see IR 010 442-487. PUB TYPE Information Analyses (070) -Speeches/Conference Papers (150)

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The State of the Art in Rate-Modified Speech: A Review of Contemporary Research.

A paired-comparison paradigm was utilized to determine the preferences of 20 young children for listening rate for prose speech. An electronic expansion/compression technique yielded nine rates of speech ranging from 100 wpm to 200 wpm, with intervals of 25 wpm. The results indicated that the children most preferred a listening rate of 200 wpm and least preferred a rate of 100 wpm. Comparisons of the present findings with preference rates of older, post-adolescent children and adults are discussed. Direction for further research with temporal alteration and linguistic constraints on the message are considered.

Young children's preferences for listening rates.

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Young children's preferences for listening rates.