Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language

ABSTRACT: Visual input is crucial for understanding speech under noisy conditions, but there are hardly any tools to assess the individual ability to lipread. With this study, we wanted to (1) investigate how linguistic characteristics of language on the one hand and hearing impairment on the other hand have an impact on lipreading abilities and (2) provide a tool to assess lipreading abilities for German speakers. 170 participants (22 prelingually deaf) completed the online assessment, which consisted of a subjective hearing impairment scale and silent videos in which different item categories (numbers, words, and sentences) were spoken. The task for our participants was to recognize the spoken stimuli just by visual inspection. We used different versions of one test and investigated the impact of

SUBMITTER: Suess N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9524625 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature