Studies related to hearing

Talker familiarity and speech perception in hearing-impaired individuals

Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)

Familiar voices, that is, voices with which we have strong long-term familiarity with, are able to be more easily understood under challenging listening conditions.The goal of the present project is to investigate if familiar voices are easier to process than unfamiliar ones.

Voice familiarity effect on synthetic voices

Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)

It is a known phenomenon that familiar voices, that is, voices with which we have strong long-term familiarity are processed differently by our brains. The goal of the present project is to investigate if modern computational tools are able to generate synthetic speech capable of eliciting similar familiarity effects to natural recordings of a participant's close friend or romantic partner.