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Description: In the present study we tested the familiar talker advantage (FTA) in a sentence-recognition-in-noise task. The familiar talker was the university professor of half the participants’ and the professor was unknown by the remaining participants. We aimed to evaluate the FTA with limited familiarity and no explicit talker training in a sentence recognition task. Results revealed a significant effect of talker, after only ~ 16 weeks of implicit voice exposure. Specifically, the FTA supported the time course specificity hypothesis—when listening is slow and cognitively effortful, talker-specific information benefits the listener’s spoken language processing.