Corpus of deaf speech for acoustic and speech production research
Lisa Lucks Mendel, Sungmin Lee, Monique A. Pousson, Chhayakanta Patro, Skylar McSorley, Bonny Banerjee, Shamima Najnin, Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2017
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.