Using speech transformation to increase speech intelligibility for the hearing- and speaking-impaired

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3605-3608

  Kain, Alexander ^a   Van Santen, Jan ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BioSpeech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing aid; Speaking aid; Speech modification

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; GENERAL POPULATION; HEARING AID; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; LISTENING TESTS; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; SPEAKING AID; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPEECH TRANSFORMATION;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; PHOTOMAPPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 70349210296     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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