Eliciting natural conversational Lombard speech in realistic acoustic environments
Abstract
▶ Speech intelligibility tests, which are commonly used in the
audiology clinic and in research, do not reflect what people
experience outside the clinic.
▶ Speech intelligibility tests may be poor predictors of
communication ability and effort in daily life (Working
Group on Speech Understanding and Aging, 1988).
▶ An alternative approach is to measure communication
difficulty and effort from speech production which also
incorporates more realistic task demands