Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language

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ID6440696
AuthorsVioleta Gómez‐vicente (0000-0002-5696-8673), Violeta Gómez-Vicente, Gema Esquiva (0000-0002-3951-6464, Department of Optics, Pharmacology and Anatomy, University of Alicante, Spain; Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL), Spain), Carmen Lancho (0000-0002-4674-1598, Data Science Laboratory, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Kawthar Benzerdjeb, Antonia Angulo Jeréz (0000-0001-5428-9944), Eva Ausó (0000-0003-2991-7659, University of Alicante, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume68
Issue2
Pages344-364
Publication date2024-08-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Speech (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00238309241270741
PMID39189455
OpenAlexW4401916754
LanguageEN
References cited69

We sought to examine the contribution of visual cues, such as lipreading, in the identification of familiar (words) and unfamiliar (phonemes) words in terms of percent accuracy. For that purpose, in this retrospective study, we presented lists of words and phonemes (adult female healthy voice) in auditory (A) and audiovisual (AV) modalities to 65 Spanish normal-hearing male and female listeners classified in four age groups. Our results showed a remarkable benefit of AV information in word and phoneme recognition. Regarding gender, women exhibited better performance than men in both A and AV modalities, although we only found significant differences for words but not for phonemes. Concerning age, significant differences were detected in word recognition in the A modality between the youngest (18–29 years old) and oldest (⩾50 years old) groups only. We conclude visual information enhances word and phoneme recognition and women are more influenced by visual signals than men in AV speech perception. On the contrary, it seems that, overall, age is not a limiting factor for word recognition, with no significant differences observed in the AV modality

Audiology · Identification (biology · Linguistics · Modalities · Modality (human–computer interaction · Perception · Reading (process · Word (group theory · Word recognition · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Medicine · Multisensory perception and integration · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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