Online training that helps people recognize and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds new research.

Online training that helps people recognise and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds research by UCL experts.
The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, tested whether learned voices were easier to understand than unfamiliar voices in 20 older (55-73 years) and 20 younger (18-34 years) adults.
Participants took part in some preparatory online training, where they were trained to understand three new voices by listening to them each say 10 meaningful sentences until they became "familiar."
They then had to listen to one of these voices speak at the same time as two new "unfamiliar" voices (similar to in a social setting) to see if they could pick out a specific sentence and name which of the three "familiar" speakers they were listening to.
This content is taken from University College London

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