Effects of Added Emphasis and Pause in Audio Delivery of Health Information
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| author | Ahmed, Arif Leroy, Gondy Rains, Stephen A. Harber, Philip Kauchak, David Barai, Prosanta |
| author_facet | Ahmed, Arif Leroy, Gondy Rains, Stephen A. Harber, Philip Kauchak, David Barai, Prosanta |
| contents | Health literacy is crucial to supporting good health and is a major national goal. Audio delivery of information is becoming more popular for informing oneself. In this study, we evaluate the effect of audio enhancements in the form of information emphasis and pauses with health texts of varying difficulty and we measure health information comprehension and retention. We produced audio snippets from difficult and easy text and conducted the study on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). Our findings suggest that emphasis matters for both information comprehension and retention. When there is no added pause, emphasizing significant information can lower the perceived difficulty for difficult and easy texts. Comprehension is higher (54%) with correctly placed emphasis for the difficult texts compared to not adding emphasis (50%). Adding a pause lowers perceived difficulty and can improve retention but adversely affects information comprehension. |
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| spellingShingle | Effects of Added Emphasis and Pause in Audio Delivery of Health Information Ahmed, Arif Leroy, Gondy Rains, Stephen A. Harber, Philip Kauchak, David Barai, Prosanta Computation and Language Health literacy is crucial to supporting good health and is a major national goal. Audio delivery of information is becoming more popular for informing oneself. In this study, we evaluate the effect of audio enhancements in the form of information emphasis and pauses with health texts of varying difficulty and we measure health information comprehension and retention. We produced audio snippets from difficult and easy text and conducted the study on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). Our findings suggest that emphasis matters for both information comprehension and retention. When there is no added pause, emphasizing significant information can lower the perceived difficulty for difficult and easy texts. Comprehension is higher (54%) with correctly placed emphasis for the difficult texts compared to not adding emphasis (50%). Adding a pause lowers perceived difficulty and can improve retention but adversely affects information comprehension. |
| title | Effects of Added Emphasis and Pause in Audio Delivery of Health Information |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19119 |