Proposal and evaluation of the sweeping display of speech spectrum for a tactile vocoder used by the profoundly hearing impaired

Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part III: Fundamental Electronic Science (English translation of Denshi Tsushin Gakkai Ronbunshi)

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 56-66

  Wada, Chikamune ^a   Ino, Shuichi ^a   Ifukube, Tohru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory substitution; Profoundly hearing impaired; Sweeping display; Tactile aid; Tactile display

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; VOCODERS;

AUDITORY SUBSTITUTION; CHANNEL TACTILE VOCODER; FINGER TIP TACTILE SENSATION; PROFOUNDLY HEARING IMPAIRED; SENSORY SUBSTITUTION SYSTEM; SWEEPING DISPLAY; TACTILE AID; TACTILE DISPLAY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029775458     PISSN: 10420967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecjc.4430790106     Document Type: Review

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