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ArticleAudiology research2025

Impaired Prosodic Processing but Not Hearing Function Is Associated with an Age-Related Reduction in AI Speech Recognition.

Björn Herrmann, Mo Eric Cui

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Björn HerrmannRotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst St., North York, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.
Mo Eric CuiRotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst St., North York, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.

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AGE-WELL Early Professionals, Inspired Careers in AgeTechCanada Research Chair program CRC-2019-00156Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2021-02602
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Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesVoice artificial intelligence (AI) technology is becoming increasingly common. Recent work indicates that middle-aged to older adults are less able to identify modern AI speech compared to younger adults, but the underlying causes are unclear.

methodsThe current study with younger and middle-aged to older adults investigated factors that could explain the age-related reduction in AI speech identification. Experiment 1 investigated whether high-frequency information in speech-to which middle-aged to older adults often have less access due sensitivity loss at high frequencies-contributes to age-group differences. Experiment 2 investigated whether an age-related reduction in the ability to process prosodic information in speech predicts the reduction in AI speech identification.

resultsResults for Experiment 1 show that middle-aged to older adults are less able to identify AI speech for both full-bandwidth speech and speech for which information above 4 kHz is removed, making the contribution of high-frequency hearing loss unlikely. Experiment 2 shows that the ability to identify AI speech is greater in individuals who also show a greater ability to identify emotions from prosodic speech information, after accounting for hearing function and self-rated experience with voice-AI systems.

conclusionsThe current results suggest that the ability to identify AI speech is related to the accurate processing of prosodic information.

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agingartificial intelligencehearing lossprosodytext-to-speech synthesis

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PMID39997158
PMCPMC11852301

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