Sociophonetics Lab - Past Recruitments
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CI Voice Assessments12/2/2023 Seeking speech pathology grad students to rate cochlear implant users' vocal qualities. In a prior study (Auditory First Impressions), listeners clicked on squares in a PowerPoint slide to hear a different person reading a couple sentences. They then arranged the speakers into groups that sounded similar to them. Unknown to them, many of the speakers were born deaf and had used cochlear implants since childhood, which can make their speech hard to understand or give them an "accent" of sorts. In past studies in a larger project about Impressions of Cochlear Implant User Speech, listeners' first impressions of CI users were less positive than those of people with typical hearing (TH), even when every word is intelligible. What do listeners pick up on that makes even perfectly intelligible speakers sound different to them? Could it be voice quality? This pilot study used auditory voice assessment reports from advanced speech pathology grad students to explore aspects of voice quality like pitch, loudness, creakiness, rate, rhythm, and nasality that might contribute to the perception of a "deaf accent." Results were used to narrow down acoustic features to measure in exploring the Auditory First Impressions groupings. Presentations
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