K. Papadopoulos, V. Argyropoulos , Georgios Kouroupetroglou. Discrimination, perception and comprehension of synthetic speech by visually impaired students: the case of similar acoustic patterns. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 102(7), 2008. [doi]
This study examined the perceptions held by sighted students and students with visual impairments of the intelligibility and comprehensibility of similar acoustic patterns produced by synthetic speech. It determined the types of errors the students made and compared the performance of the two groups on auditory discrimination and comprehension.