Real-time implementation of cochlear implant speech processing pipeline on smartphones

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 886-889

  Parris, Shane ^a   Torlak, Murat ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; real time implementation of cochlear implant speech processing pipeline; smartphone implementation

Indexed keywords

MHEALTH; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINES; REAL TIME CONTROL; SMARTPHONES; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTOMATED TUNING; BACKGROUND NOISE; COMPONENT BASED; NOISE SUPPRESSION; PDA PLATFORMS; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT SPEECH PROCESSING; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMARTPHONE; SPEECH;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; NOISE; SMARTPHONE; SPEECH;

EID: 84929497745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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