Michael Kiefte
Dalhousie University
45 Papers
386 Citations
Michael Kiefte is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Formant & Vowel. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 44 publications.
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Papers
Sensitivity to change in perception of speech
TL;DR: Multiple findings from perception experiments serve as evidence for spectral contrast explaining fundamental aspects of perception of coarticulated speech, and these findings are consistent with a broad array of known psychoacoustic and neurophysiological phenomena.
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Optimum Tension for Partial Ossicular Replacement Prosthesis Reconstruction in the Human Middle Ear
TL;DR: Hearing results from ossiculoplasty are unpredictable because the mechanical functioning of partial ossicular replacement prostheses from the stapes head to the eardrum will be affected by the tension that they are placed under.
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Cochlea-scaled spectral entropy predicts rate-invariant intelligibility of temporally distorted sentences
TL;DR: An information-theoretic approach to speech perception and the significance of spectral change rather than physical units of time is supported, and a metric of potential information, quantified as relative dissimilarity (change) between successive cochlear-scaled spectra, is introduced.
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Comparison of the mechanical performance of ossiculoplasty using a prosthetic malleus-to-stapes head with a tympanic membrane-to-stapes head assembly in a human cadaveric middle ear model.
TL;DR: Tension has a significant effect on prosthesis function and generally result in better transmission of vibrations to the stapes footplate than tympanic membrane assembly to theStapes head type prostheses.
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The effectiveness of SpeechEasy during situations of daily living
TL;DR: The effect of SpeechEasy on stuttering frequency and the perceived benefits of device use in situations of daily living, as assessed weekly over the course of 9-16 weeks of wear, for seven adults who stutter is evaluated.
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