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    Effect of speaker age on speech recognition and perceived listening effort in older adults with hearing loss (2012)

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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6312
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0101)
    
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    University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders
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    1558-9102
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    Authors
    McAuliffe, M.J.
    Wilding, P.J.
    Rickard, N.A.
    O'Beirne, Greg A. cc
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    Abstract

    Purpose: Older adults exhibit difficulty understanding speech that has been experimentally degraded. Age-related changes to the speech mechanism lead to natural degradations in signal quality. We tested the hypothesis that older adults with hearing loss would exhibit declines in speech recognition when listening to the speech of older adults, compared with the speech of younger adults, and would report greater amounts of listening effort in this task. Methods: Nineteen individuals with age-related hearing loss completed speech recognition and listening effort scaling tasks. Both were conducted in quiet, when listening to high and low predictability phrases produced by younger and older speakers respectively. Results: No significant difference in speech recognition existed when stimuli were derived from younger or older speakers. However, perceived effort was significantly higher when listening to speech from older adults, as compared to younger adults. Conclusions: For older individuals with hearing loss, natural degradations in signal quality may require greater listening effort. However, they do not interfere with speech recognition – at least in quiet. Follow-up investigation of the effect of speaker age on speech recognition and listening effort under more challenging noise conditions appears warranted.

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    McAuliffe, M.J., Wilding, P.J., Rickard, N.A., O'Beirne, G.A. (2012) Effect of speaker age on speech recognition and perceived listening effort in older adults with hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, (in press).
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    Keywords
    aging; hearing loss; effort; speech recognition; speech; listener
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    20 - Language, Communication and Culture
    17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1702 - Cognitive Science::170204 - Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651

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