Michael Kiefte, PhD
Professor and Director
Email: mkiefte@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-5150
Fax: 902-494-5151
Mailing Address:
Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building
5850 College Street
2nd Floor, Room 2C01
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4R2
5850 College Street
2nd Floor, Room 2C01
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4R2
Education:
- BA, Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- PhD, Experimental Phonetics, University of Alberta
Research interests:
- Speech perception and production
- Psychoacoustics
- Signal processing in speech research
- Hearing aid and cochlear implant processing strategies
- Auditory physiology
- Speech processing
Teaching
- CMSD 6630: Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Technologies
Selected publications
- Dikaios, K., Rempel, S., Oore, S., Kiefte, M., and Uher, R. (2023). āApplications of speech analysis in psychiatry,ā Harvard Rev. Psychiatry 31, 1.
- Nenadic Ģ, F., Coulter, P., Nearey, T. M., and Kiefte, M. (2020). āPerception of vowels with missing formant information,ā J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 148, 1911ā1921.
- Stilp, C. E., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2018). āDiscovering acoustic structure of novel sounds,ā J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2460ā2473.
- Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (2017). āModeling consonant-context effects in a large database of spontaneous speech recordings,ā J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142, 434ā443.