Undergraduate Student: – Bharat Rajagopalan, Honors Thesis

Collaborator: Navin Viswanathan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

The purpose of this project is to investigate how listeners cope with variability in the speech signal due to the effects of both room acoustics and source placement. This project will improve our broad understanding of speech processing and will provide insight into the difficulty that certain sub-groups encounter with speech processing, e.g. non-native listeners, and listeners with speech and language disorders. The specific goal of this project is to obtain pilot data on the effects of room acoustics and HVAC noise on speech intelligibility using accurate, 3D sound reproduction techniques in the AURAS facility.