Contribution of low-frequency acoustic information to Chinese speech recognition in cochlear implant simulations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2260-2266

  Luo, Xin ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI); HEARING SUBJECTS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT);

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LOW PASS FILTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; DISEASE SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHONEME; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33749563862     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2336990     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Ching, T. Y. C., Incerti, P., and Hill, M. (2004). " Binaural benefits for adults who use hearing aids and cochlear implants in opposite ears., " Ear Hear. 25, 9-21.
2. Dorman, M. F., Loizou, P. C., and Rainey, D. (1997). " Speech intelligibility as a function of the number of channels of stimulation for signal processors using sine-wave and noise-band outputs., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 2403-2411.
3. Dorman, M. F., Spahr, A. J., Loizou, P. C., Dana, C. J., and Schmidt, J. S. (2005). " Acoustic simulations of combined electric and acoustic hearing (EAS)., " Ear Hear. 26, 371-380.
4. Faulkner, A., Rosen, S., and Moore, B. C. J. (1990). " Residual frequency selectivity in the profoundly hearing-impaired listener., " Br. J. Audiol. 24, 381-392.
5. Faulkner, A., Ball, V., Rosen, S., Moore, B. C. J., and Fourcin, A. J. (1992). " Speech pattern hearing aids for the profoundly hearing-impaired: Speech perception and auditory abilities., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2136-2155.
6. Fu, Q.-J., Hsu, C.-J., and Horng, M.-J. (2004). " Effects of speech processing strategy on Chinese tone recognition by Nucleus-24 cochlear implant patients., " Ear Hear. 25, 501-508.
7. Fu, Q.-J., Shannon, R. V., and Wang, X.-S. (1998a). " Effects of noise and spectral resolution on vowel and consonant recognition: Acoustic and electric hearing., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 3586-3596.
8. Fu, Q.-J., Zeng, F.-G., Shannon, R. V., and Soli, S. D. (1998b). " Importance of tonal envelope cues in Chinese speech recognition., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 505-510.
9. Geurts, L., and Wouters, J. (2001). " Coding of the fundamental frequency in continuous interleaved sampling processors for cochlear implants., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 713-726.
10. Geurts, L., and Wouters, J. (2004). " Better place-coding of the fundamental frequency in cochlear implants., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 844-852.
11. Green, T., Faulkner, A., Rosen, S., and Macherey, O. (2005). " Enhancement of temporal periodicity cues in cochlear implants: Effects on prosodic perception and vowel identification., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 375-385.
12. Greenwood, D. D. (1990). " A cochlear frequency-position function for several species- 29 years later., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 2592-2605.
13. Kong, Y.-Y., Stickney, G. S., and Zeng, F.-G. (2005). " Speech and melody recognition in binaurally combined acoustic and electric hearing., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 1351-1361.
14. Lan, N., Nie, K.-B., Gao, S.-K., and Zeng, F.-G. (2004). " A novel speech-processing strategy incorporating tonal information for cochlear implants., " IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 51, 752-760.
15. Luo, X., and Fu, Q.-J. (2004a). " Importance of pitch and periodicity to Chinese-speaking cochlear implant patients., " in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, 2004, Vol. 4, pp. 1-4.
16. Luo, X., and Fu, Q.-J. (2004b). " Enhancing Chinese tone recognition by manipulating amplitude envelope: Implications for cochlear implants., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 3659-3667.
17. Miller, G. A., and Nicely, P. E. (1955). " An analysis of perceptual confusions among some English consonants., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 27, 338-352.
18. Moore, B. C. J. (1996). " Perceptual consequences of cochlear hearing loss and their implications for the design of hearing aids., " Ear Hear. 17, 133-161.
19. Qin, M. K., and Oxenham, A. J. (2003). " Effects of simulated cochlear-implant processing on speech reception in fluctuating maskers., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, pp. 446-454.
20. Shannon, R. V., Zeng, F.-G., Kamath, V., Wygonski, J., and Ekelid, M. (1995). " Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues., " Science 270, 303-304.
21. Soli, S. D. (2003). " Hearing in Noise Test for Mandarin Chinese., " House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
22. Stickney, G. S., Zeng, F.-G., Litovsky, R., and Assmann, P. (2004). " Cochlear implant speech recognition with speech maskers., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 1081-1091.
23. Turner, C. W., Gantz, B. J., Vidal, C., Behrens, A., and Henry, B. A. (2004). " Speech recognition in noise for cochlear implant listeners: Benefits of residual acoustic hearing., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1729-1735.
24. Tyler, R. S., Parkinson, A. J., Wilson, B. S., Witt, S., Preece, J. P., and Noble, W. (2002). " Patients utilizing a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: Speech perception and localization., " Ear Hear. 23, 98-105.
25. Van Tasell, D. J., and Yanz, J. L. (1987). " Speech recognition threshold in noise: Effects of hearing loss, frequency response, and speech materials., " J. Speech Hear. Res. 30, 377-386.
26. Wang, R.-H. (1993). " The standard Chinese database., " University of Science and Technology of China, internal materials.
27. Wei, C.-G., Cao, K.-L., and Zeng, F.-G. (2004). " Mandarin tone recognition in cochlear-implant subjects., " Hear. Res. 197, 87-95.