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Speech perception researchers may be interested
in a set of
14,400 consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) syllables that can be
downloaded for
research use at www.ebire.org/hcnlab
...(see the link to “Cognitive tests and hearing programs” at the
bottom of the
page). The syllables were
constructed from the
exhaustive combination
of 20 onset consonants, 20 coda consonants, and 3 vowels (/ɑ/,
/i/, /u/).
Nineteen consonants (/p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /ɵ/, /s/, /ʃ/, /ʧ/,
/b/, /d/, /g/,
/v/, /ð/, /z/, /ʤ/, /m/, /n/, /l/, and /r/) occur at onset and
coda consonant
positions, while /h/ occurs only in onset position and /ŋ/ only
in coda. The set
includes 2,400 CVCs recorded from each
of six talkers (three female). Speech spectrum noise samples
matched to the
average speech spectrum of each talker are also available, along
with the
software needed the run the California Syllable Test (CaST) and
Consonant in
Noise Training (CINT). The
use of these
consonant sets is described in the following publications: Woods, D.L., Yund, E.W., Herron, T.J., and
Cruadhlaoich,
M.A. (2010). Consonant identification in consonant-vowel-consonant
syllables in
speech-spectrum noise. J Acoust Soc Am 127,
1609-1623. doi:
10.1121/1.3293005. Woods, D.L., Doss, Z., Herron, T.J., and Yund,
E.W. (2013).
Age-related changes in consonant and sentence processing. J
Rehabil Res Dev
49, 1277-1291. Woods, D.L., Yund, E.W., and Herron, T.J.
(2010). Measuring
consonant identification in nonsense syllables, words, and
sentences. J
Rehabil Res Dev 47, 243-260. Woods, D.L., Arbogast, T., Doss, Z., Younus,
M., Herron,
T.J., and Yund, E.W. (2015). Aided and unaided speech perception
by older
hearing impaired listeners. PLoS One 10, e0114922.
doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0114922. Woods, D.L., Doss, Z., Herron, T.J., Arbogast,
T., Younus,
M., Ettlinger, M., and Yund, E.W. (2015). Speech perception in
older hearing
impaired listeners: benefits of perceptual training. PLoS One
10,
e0113965. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113965. -- David L. Woods, Professor of Neurology, Dept. of Neurology,UC Davis, Chief, Clinical Neurophysiology and Chief, Research MRI, Neurology Service (127E), Bldg. R4, VANCHCS, 150 Muir Rd., Martinez, CA 94553 Tel (925) 372-2571, Fax (925) 228-5738 Email:dlwoods@xxxxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.ebire.org/hcnlab |