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Effects of age and divided attention on listeners' comprehension of synthesized speech

Kathryn Drager Department of Communication Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Joe Reichle Department of Communication Disorders, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Pages 109-119 | Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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Ralf W. Schlosser & Rajinder K. Koul. (2015) Speech Output Technologies in Interventions for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Scoping Review. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 31:4, pages 285-309.
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Shelley Von Berg, Anna Panorska, Dennis Uken & Fares Qeadan. (2009) DECtalk™ and VeriVox™: Intelligibility, Likeability, and Rate Preference Differences for Four Listener Groups. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 25:1, pages 7-18.
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Kathryn D. R. Drager, Jessie L. Anderson, Julie Debarros, Elizabeth Hayes, Jamie Liebman & Elizabeth Panek. (2007) Speech synthesis in background noise: Effects of message formulation and visual information on the intelligibility of American English DECTalk™. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 23:2, pages 177-186.
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Kathryn DR Drager, Katherine C Hustad & Kerry L Gable. (2004) Telephone Communication: Synthetic and Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility and Listener Preferences. Augmentative and Alternative Communication 20:2, pages 103-112.
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JaniceC. Light & Kathryn D. R. Drager. (2002) Improving the Design of Augmentative and Alternative Technologies for Young Children. Assistive Technology 14:1, pages 17-32.
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Allison Whitten, Alexandra P. Key, Antje S. Mefferd & James W. Bodfish. (2020) Auditory event-related potentials index faster processing of natural speech but not synthetic speech over nonspeech analogs in children. Brain and Language 207, pages 104825.
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Paul M. Evitts, Heather Starmer, Kristine Teets, Christen Montgomery, Lauren Calhoun, Allison Schulze, Jenna MacKenzie & Lauren Adams. (2016) The Impact of Dysphonic Voices on Healthy Listeners: Listener Reaction Times, Speech Intelligibility, and Listener Comprehension. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 25:4, pages 561-575.
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Stephan Getzmann, Edward J. Golob & Edmund Wascher. (2016) Focused and divided attention in a simulated cocktail-party situation: ERP evidence from younger and older adults. Neurobiology of Aging 41, pages 138-149.
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Anne M. Sinatra, Valerie K. Sims, Shannon K.T. Bailey & Maxine B. Najle. (2013) Differences in the Performance of Older and Younger Adults in a Natural vs. Synthetic Speech Dichotic Listening Task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 57:1, pages 1565-1569.
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Stephan Getzmann. (2012) Handicapped Due to Age?. Journal of Psychophysiology 26:3, pages 132-144.
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Kathryn D. R. Drager, Joe Reichle & Carrie Pinkoski. (2010) Synthesized Speech Output and Children: A Scoping Review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 19:3, pages 259-273.
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Steven E. Stern. (2008) Computer-Synthesized Speech and Perceptions of the Social Influence of Disabled Users. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27:3, pages 254-265.
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Alexander L. Francis, Howard C. Nusbaum & Kimberly Fenn. (2007) Effects of Training on the Acoustic–Phonetic Representation of Synthetic Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 50:6, pages 1445-1465.
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Jefferson B. Hardee & Christopher B. Mayhorn. (2016) Reexamining Synthetic Speech: Intelligibility and the Effects of Age, Task, and Speech Type on Recall. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 51:18, pages 1143-1147.
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Rajinder Koul & Kasey Hester. (2006) Effects of Repeated Listening Experiences on the Recognition of Synthetic Speech by Individuals With Severe Intellectual Disabilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 49:1, pages 47-57.
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Ellen Axmear, Joe Reichle, Maya Alamsaputra, Kathryn Kohnert, Kathryn Drager & Kelli Sellnow. (2005) Synthesized Speech Intelligibility in Sentences. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 36:3, pages 244-250.
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Katherine C. Hustad & David R. Beukelman. (2002) Listener Comprehension of Severely Dysarthric Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 45:3, pages 545-558.
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Kathryn D. R. Drager & Joe E. Reichle. (2001) Effects of Discourse Context on the Intelligibility of Synthesized Speech for Young Adult and Older Adult Listeners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44:5, pages 1052-1057.
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