title: Talker intelligibility differences in cochlear implant listeners.
abstract: People vary in the intelligibility of their speech. This study investigated whether across-talker intelligibility differences observed in normally-hearing listeners are also found in cochlear implant (CI) users. Speech perception for male, female, and child pairs of talkers differing in intelligibility was assessed with actual and simulated CI processing and in normal hearing. While overall speech recognition was, as expected, poorer for CI users, differences in intelligibility across talkers were consistent across all listener groups. This suggests that the primary determinants of intelligibility differences are preserved in the CI-processed signal, though no single critical acoustic property could be identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Sotira
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katiri
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Faulkner
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility / Q000502:physiology*