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Dr. Hwei-Bing Lin, Director
Asst. Professor, Department of Communication Sciences &
Disorders
Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus
The Auditory -Visual Speech Processing Laboratory serves
the dual function of a teaching center, as well as a research
laboratory. A major research project in bi-modal speech
processing is currently underway. Another important area
of scientific and research interest is the issue of speech
production and perception of bilingual & multilingual
populations.
I. Equipment-
Auditory speech-
Kay Elemetrics Computerized Speech Lab
Nasometer
Visi-Pitch
The Massachusetts Eye & Ear Database of Disordered
Voices
The University of Victoria Phonetic Database
Visual speech-
Metrox RT2000 Turkey System
SGI
Panasonic Optical Disc Recorder
Panasonic Optical Disc Player
Laser Disc Player
NICHD Sign language database
Synthetic speech data
II. Bi-modal Speech Processes-
auditory cues
lexical
Signal >>>
-à speech cues à access à spoken word
Visual
cues ^
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linguistic competence
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phonology syntax semantics
pragmatics
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