Clinical trials: Speech Perception
Auditory Perceptual Disorders, Aging Problems
Auditory Temporal Processes in Aging
Older people experience great difficulty understanding speech, especially accented English, and this problem is expected to increase with the influx of immigrants who provide services to the elderly population.
- Trial name
- NCT03468660
- Testing
- Auditory training with feedback, Listening paradigm with no feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, College Park
Presbycusis
Improving Speech in Noise Perception for Individuals With Age-related Hearing Loss
Hearing loss, especially for speech perception in the presence of noise, may lead older individuals to withdraw from social situations.
- Trial name
- NCT07192757
- Testing
- transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Hearing Loss, Functional
The Effectiveness of Over the Counter Hearing Products for Middle-Aged Adults
The investigators will examine the effectiveness of selected over-the-counter personal sound amplifiers in addressing functional hearing problems in middle-aged listeners with mild hearing loss.
- Trial name
- NCT03511417
- Testing
- over-the-counter hearing device
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Speech Sound Disorder
Auditory-Perceptual Training Via Telepractice
The objective of this study is to measure the effects of online perceptual training on perception and production in children with RSE who exhibit atypical perception relative to norms from our lab-based pilot data.
- Trial name
- NCT04858035
- Testing
- Perceptual training, Production training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Montclair State University
Lexical Tone, Neuroimaging
Lexical Tone Perception in Tone language--a fMRI Study
Tone language refers to a language that uses fixed pitch pattern to distinguish words (Yip, 2002). Understanding the functional anatomy of the brain during lexical tone processing will provide useful hints for an effective…
- Conditions
- Lexical Tone, Neuroimaging, Chinese, Speech Perception
- Trial name
- NCT04135105
- Testing
- Normal hearing group
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Auditory Perception
Comparison of PSAPs in Different Maskers
This study will measure the performance of three personal amplification devices when used by middle-aged adults. Speech understanding will be assessed with two different types of background noises at three different input levels.
- Trial name
- NCT03704142
- Testing
- Sound World Solutions CS50+, Tweak Focus, IQ Earbuds
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Speech Intelligibility, Aging
Speech Perception With High Cognitive Demand
With advancing age, adults experience increasing speech understanding difficulties in challenging situations. Currently, speech-in-noise difficulties are rehabilitated by providing hearing aids.
- Trial name
- NCT04698356
- Testing
- Auditory-cognitive training paradigm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, College Park
Hearing Loss, Children With Hearing Differences
Assessing Speech Perception and Amplification Benefit During Infancy
The goal of this project is to compare aided and unaided speech discrimination among infants with hearing loss and a cohort of infants with typical hearing.
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Children With Hearing Differences, Amplification, Speech Perception
- Trial name
- NCT05653999
- Testing
- Hearing Aids
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Noise Exposure, Normal Hearing
Measuring the Evolution of Speech Perception in Noise, in Realistic Sound Environments According to Age
In clinical settings, hearing perception is typically assessed using audiometric tests administered in a controlled environment.
- Conditions
- Noise Exposure, Normal Hearing, Child
- Trial name
- SI 360 (NCT07675941)
- Testing
- Système Immersion 360
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Cancer, Hearing Loss Ototoxic
The Effect of Cancer Treatments on Speech Perception in Noise, Cognition, and Hearing-Related Quality of Life
The study will assess the effect of cancer treatments on speech perception in noise, cognition, and hearing-related quality of life by monitoring 200 cancer patients receiving standard care for their underlying malignancy.
- Conditions
- Cancer, Hearing Loss Ototoxic, Cognitive Decline, Quality of Life
- Trial name
- CaSPiN (NCT06551857)
- Testing
- Chemotherapy, chemoradiation, radiation therapy
- Where
- Finland
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Turku University Hospital
Gender Dysphoria
Acoustic and Perceptual Effects of Intonation Training in Gender Diverse People
The aim of this project is to investigate the short- and the longer-term effect of intonation training on vocal characteristics, listener perceptions and patient related outcome measures (PROMS) in gender diverse people using a…
- Trial name
- B6702021001262 (NCT05204732)
- Testing
- Intonation training
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Mouth Breathing
The Influence of Breathing in Writing
Purpose: To examine whether nasal breathing influences the perception of sound causing trade between hard and soft consonants in the writing of children in school age and the incidence of trade.
- Trial name
- NCT02437877
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Campinas, Brazil
Hearing Loss
Improving Spatial Perception and Speech Understanding in Multitalker Mixtures
The purpose of this study is to investigate several approaches for improving spatial perception and speech intelligibility in multitalker listening situations for hearing-aid users.
- Trial name
- NCT05260307
- Testing
- hearing aid condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 220 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Hearing Loss
Randomised Study of Web-Based Auditory Training With Varying Perceptual and Cognitive Demands on Training Gains and Generalised Speech, Cognitive, and Communication Outcomes
WP1: PLUS-Auditory Training The goal of this experimental study is to better understand how task difficulty affects on-task learning thresholds and generalised benefits in two PLUS auditory training tasks involving perceptual and…
- Trial name
- PLUS-Optimal (NCT07506408)
- Testing
- Practice Listening and Understand Speech (PLUS)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Healthy
Modulating Speech Perception With Current Stimulation
This study aims to further develop tACS as a tool to improve speech perception, by manipulation of brain-speech synchronisation ("entrainment"), thereby transforming a promising approach into a technique that can benefit to…
- Trial name
- SPEECHSTIM (NCT05446350)
- Testing
- transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), electroencephalography (EEG), brain imaging (fMRI)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 126 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Developmental Articulation Disorder, Stuttering
Study of Brain Activity During Speech Production and Speech Perception
The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the brain's activity and organization in the development of speech disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT00004991
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 411 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Hearing Loss
Speech Perception Training: Advanced Scoring and Feedback Methods
The purpose of the study is to assess training of visual speech (lipreading) and audiovisual (lipreading plus auditory) speech as a rehabilitation strategy for hearing loss in adults.
- Trial name
- NCT05012774
- Testing
- Speech Recognition Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- SeeHear LLC