Frequency compression hearing aid for severe-to-profound hearing impairments

Auris Nasus Larynx

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 327-334

  Sakamoto, Shinichi ^a   Goto, Katsuhiko ^a   Tateno, Makoto ^a   Kaga, Kimitaka ^b  

^a RION CO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frequency compression; Frequency transposition; Fundamental frequency; Hearing aids; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0033829885     PISSN: 03858146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0385-8146(00)00066-3     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Johanson B. A new coding amplifier system for the severely hard of hearing, Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Acoustics, 1961, pp. 655-657.
2. Velmans M. The design of speech recoding devices for the deaf. Br. J. Audiol. 8:1974;1-5.
3. Rosenhouse J. The frequency transposing hearing aid: a new prototype. Hear. J. 42(2):1989;14-15.
4. Gengel R.W., Foust K.O. Some suggestions on how to evaluate a transposer hearing aid. J. Speech Hear. Disord. 40:1975;206-210.
5. Rees R., Velmans M. The effect of frequency transposition on the untrained auditory discrimination of congenitally deaf children. Br. J. Audiol. 27:1993;53-60.
6. Velmans M., Marcuson M. The acceptability of spectrum-preserving and spectrum-destroying transposition to severely hearing-impaired listeners. Br. J. Audiol. 17:1983;17-26.
7. Davis-Penn W., Ross M. Pediatric experiences with frequency transposing. Hear. Instr. 44(4):1993;26-32.
8. Parent T.C., Chmiel R., Jerger J. Comparison of performance with frequency transposition hearing aids and conventional hearing aids. J. Am. Acad. Audiol. 8:1997;355-365.
9. Sekimoto S., Saito S. Nonlinear frequency compression speech processing based on the PARCOR analysis-synthesis technique. Ann. Bull. Rilp. 14:1980;65-72.
10. Itakura F., Saito S., Koike Y., Sawabe H., Nishikawa M. An audio response unit based on partial correlation. IEEE Trans. COM-20:1972;792-797.
11. Sakamoto S., Tateno M., Otomo S. Effects of frequency compression on speech intelligibility for the hearing impaired (in Japanese). J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. 55:1999;424-434.
12. Shiroma M., Yukawa K., Kawano A., Funasaka S., Nakanishi Y., Honda K. The change of cochlear implant wearing person speech sound listening ability by the difference of speech processing method (in Japanese). Audiol. Jpn. 38:1995;527-528.