Clinical trials: Speech Intelligibility
Speech Intelligibility, Aging
Speech Perception and 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
- NCT04997577
- Testing
- Auditory-cognitive training paradigm, Auditory training paradigm
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, College Park
Dysarthria, Hypokinetic
Listener Training for Improved Intelligibility of People With Parkinson's Disease
Listener training offers a promising avenue for improving communication for people with dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease by offsetting the intelligibility burden from the patient onto their primary communication partners.
- Trial name
- NCT06815263
- Testing
- Listener Training
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 360 people
- Sponsor
- Utah State University
Hearing Loss
Evaluating Benefits of Hearing Aid Microphone Directionality Technologies
This study will evaluate the impact of hearing aid microphone directionality technologies and settings on speech understanding in noise for experienced hearing aid users.
- Trial name
- NCT04953390
- Testing
- Phonak Audeo hearing aid, Phonak hearing aid with multiple directionality settings, adjustable via a mobile app
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Music Therapy After Cochlear Implantation
Impact of Music Therapy on Speech Intelligibility in Noise With Cochlear Implants
The aim of this clinical study is to investigate whether six months of music therapy immediately after CI implantation helps to improve speech intelligibility in noise.
- Trial name
- NCT06734897
- Testing
- music therapy after Cochlear Implantation, no music therapy after Cochlear Implantation
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Armina Kreuzer
Deafness Neurosensory
Real-time Artificial Intelligence-based Speech Enhancement Methods for Hearing Aid Improvement
Individuals with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorders (ANSD) represent 1-10% of adults with hearing loss. These individuals have little or no benefit from current hearing aids because ANSD is a continuum of hearing impairments…
- Trial name
- REFINED (NCT05985473)
- Testing
- audiological measurements, Objective and subjective audiological measurements, Evaluation of the denoising methods REFINED
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur
Deafness, Speech Intelligibility
Evaluating Short-term Effects of Computerized Brain Fitness Exercises in Adult Cochlear Implant and/or Hearing Aid Users
In this study we are testing computer-based brain fitness exercises. The games are designed to improve people's cognitive abilities brain functions, like memory, concentration, and ability to do two things at once.
- Trial name
- NCT01732887
- Testing
- Cognitive fitness training
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Aaron Newman
Hearing Loss
Exploration of the Functional Effect of Modified Gain Precalculation on Soft Speech Intelligibility
An exploratory investigation of gain precalculation principles in CE-labelled Sonova brand hearing instruments (e.g. Phonak hearing instruments) is intended to be conducted on hearing impaired participants.
- Trial name
- NCT07388784
- Testing
- Competitor device, hearing aid with standard gain precalculation principle, Hearing aid with gain precalculation principle 1, Hearing aid with gain precalculation principle 2
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- Sebastian Griepentrog
Cerebral Palsy (CP), Intelligibility, Speech
Speech Production Enhancement Using Augmentative Communication for Kids
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if speech supplementation can improve speech intelligibility in children ages 7 to 17 years with cerebral palsy.
- Conditions
- Cerebral Palsy (CP), Intelligibility, Speech, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Trial name
- SPEAK (NCT07173049)
- Testing
- AAC Speech supplementation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Parkinson Disease, Dysarthria
Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Speech Study
Parkinson's disease (PD) patients treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) have unpredictable and varied speech outcomes after this treatment.
- Trial name
- SiSS (NCT05493670)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Jeremy Greenlee
Parkinson's Disease, Dysarthria
Improve Speech Using an In-the-ear Device in Parkinson's Disease
This project will systematically examine the therapeutic effect of altered auditory feedback provided by the in-the-ear device on the speech impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease.
- Trial name
- MJFFSpeech (NCT00488657)
- Testing
- SpeechEasy Model ITC
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
Hearing Loss
Evaluation of Cogmed Working Memory Training for Adult Hearing Aid Users
A double-blind randomised active-controlled trial aims to assess whether Cogmed (adaptive) working memory training results in improvements in untrained measures of cognition, speech perception and self-reported hearing abilities…
- Trial name
- TEACH2 (NCT01892007)
- Testing
- Cogmed RM - Online adaptive working memory training
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 57 people
- Sponsor
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Patients With Speech Disorders
AI-Based Speech Intelligibility Assessment: Efficacy & Reliability
compare the auditory-perceptual assessment conducted by speech-language pathologists using the U-TAP with the assessment performed via the AI solution (Blings) program in patients with speech disorders, and to evaluate the…
- Trial name
- AI Solution (NCT07347782)
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital
Tracheostomized Patients, Decanulation
Effects of a Perma-h Model Mobile-based Rehabilitation Support Program on Hope, Self-efficacy, Perceived Social Support and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Post- Tracheostomy Oral Cancer Patients
The goal of this study (exploratory sequential design; mixed-methods study) is to evaluate whether a PERMA-H model mobile-based rehabilitation support program delivered to post-tracheostomy oral cancer patients can improve…
- Conditions
- Tracheostomized Patients, Decanulation, Oral Cancer , Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Oral Cavity Cancer, Rehabilitation Outcome
- Trial name
- NCT07714967
- Testing
- PERMA-H model mobile-based rehabilitation support program
- Where
- 2 sites in China, Malaysia
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Hainan Medical College
Stuttering, Down Syndrome
How Stuttering and Gestures Influence the Intelligibility of Individuals With Down Syndrome
This study wants to determine the relationship between spontaneous hand gestures, stuttering and intelligibility in individuals with Down syndrome. One third of these individuals has fluency problems, such as stuttering.
- Conditions
- Stuttering, Down Syndrome, Intelligibility, Speech, Gestures
- Trial name
- NCT03698539
- Testing
- hand gestures
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Methylphenidate in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
The purpose of this study is to describe the possible effects of methylphenidate (MPH) on speech intelligibility in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) aged 6-12 years.
- Trial name
- NCT05185583
- Testing
- Methylphenidate Hydrochloride
- Where
- Australia
- Volunteers
- 18 people
- Sponsor
- Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Hearing Loss
fNIRs, Listening Effort, and Speech Intelligibility
The purpose of the current study is to measure oxygenation in the PFC using fNIRS in a sample of older adults with hearing loss.
- Trial name
- NCT05330585
- Testing
- Hearing aids, Unaided
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Hearing Loss
Evaluation of In-lab Benefit for Speech-in-noise Intelligibility With Device for Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss
Evaluation of in-lab benefit for speech-in-noise intelligibility with the device for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss.
- Trial name
- NCT07074769
- Testing
- Evaluation of speech-in-noise intelligibility and listening effort
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- Luxottica Group S.p.A.
Speech Intelligibility in Noise
Study of a Signal-processing Algorithm Aiming at Improving Speech-in-noise Intelligibility in Normal-hearing and Hearing-impaired Persons
Nearly half a billion people suffer from disabling hearing loss. The most common form of hearing loss in adults is age-related hearing loss (ARHL), which causes a reduced ability to understand speech in noisy environments.
- Trial name
- AUDIOCAP 1 (NCT04775810)
- Testing
- The device is an algorithm designed to enhance speech intelligibility of speech-in-noise signals
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Archean Technologies
Hearing Loss, Screening
Adaptation of Pediatric Speech Audiometry Tests Into Other Languages
The objective of this study was to offer a comprehensive framework for the adaptation of speech audiometric tests into other languages.
- Trial name
- NCT07156825
- Where
- Hungary
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Semmelweis University
Hearing Loss, Bilateral or Unilateral
A Comparison of Hearing Aid Noise Programs on Speech Intelligibility
Hearing impaired participants will be fit with study devices which will have three different hearing aid programs. Speech intelligibility will be measured using validated tests for each of the three hearing aid programs.
- Trial name
- NCT06957730
- Testing
- Phonak Audeo Infinio Hearing Aid
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG