Corpus of deaf speech for acoustic and speech production research

Lisa Lucks Mendel; Sungmin Lee; Monique Pousson; Chhayakanta Patro; Skylar McSorley; Bonny Banerjee; Shamima Najnin; Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali

doi:10.1121/1.4994288

Corpus of deaf speech for acoustic and speech production research

J Acoust Soc Am. 2017 Jul;142(1):EL102. doi: 10.1121/1.4994288.

Authors

Lisa Lucks Mendel¹, Sungmin Lee¹, Monique Pousson¹, Chhayakanta Patro², Skylar McSorley¹, Bonny Banerjee³, Shamima Najnin³, Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali³

Affiliations

¹ School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA.
² Heuser Hearing Institute, Louisville, Kentucky 40203, USA.
³ Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA lmendel@memphis.edu, slee18@memphis.edu, mpousson@memphis.edu, chhayakantpatro@gmail.com, smmcsrly@memphis.edu, bbnerjee@memphis.edu, snajnin@memphis.edu, mhdrkprc@memphis.edu.

PMID: 28764471
DOI: 10.1121/1.4994288

Abstract

A corpus of recordings of deaf speech is introduced. Adults who were pre- or post-lingually deafened as well as those with normal hearing read standardized speech passages totaling 11 h of .wav recordings. Preliminary acoustic analyses are included to provide a glimpse of the kinds of analyses that can be conducted with this corpus of recordings. Long term average speech spectra as well as spectral moment analyses provide considerable insight into differences observed in the speech of talkers judged to have low, medium, or high speech intelligibility.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't