Formant frequency discrimination with a fine structure sound coding strategy for cochlear implants

2020 ◽  
Vol 392 ◽  
pp. 107970
Author(s):  
R. Liepins ◽  
A. Kaider ◽  
C. Honeder ◽  
A.B. Auinger ◽  
V. Dahm ◽  
...  
ORL ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kleine Punte ◽  
Marc De Bodt ◽  
Paul Van de Heyning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibha Viswanathan ◽  
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham ◽  
Michael G. Heinz

To understand the mechanisms of speech perception in everyday listening environments, it is important to elucidate the relative contributions of different acoustics cues in transmitting phonetic content. Previous studies suggest that the energy envelopes of speech convey most speech content, while the temporal fine structure (TFS) can aid in segregating target speech from background noise. Despite the vast literature on TFS and speech intelligibility, the role of TFS in conveying additional speech content over what envelopes convey in complex acoustic scenes is poorly understood. The present study addresses this question using online psychophysical experiments to measure consonant identification in multi-talker babble for intelligibility-matched intact and 64-channel envelope-vocoded stimuli. Consonant confusion patterns revealed that listeners had a greater tendency in the vocoded (versus intact) condition to be biased towards reporting that they heard an unvoiced consonant, despite envelope and place cues being largely preserved. This result was replicated when babble instances were varied across independent experiments, suggesting that TFS conveys important voicing cues over what envelopes convey in multi-talker babble, a masker that is ubiquitous in everyday environments. This finding has implications for assistive listening devices that do not currently provide TFS cues, such as cochlear implants.


2007 ◽  
Vol 127 (12) ◽  
pp. 1266-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nobbe ◽  
Peter Schleich ◽  
Clemens Zierhofer ◽  
>Peter Nopp

2017 ◽  
Vol 348 ◽  
pp. 134-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda ◽  
Almudena Eustaquio-Martín ◽  
Joshua S. Stohl ◽  
Robert D. Wolford ◽  
Reinhold Schatzer ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (08) ◽  
pp. 700-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marios S. Fourakis ◽  
John W. Hawks ◽  
Laura K. Holden ◽  
Margaret W. Skinner ◽  
Timothy A. Holden

The choice of frequency boundaries for the analysis channels of cochlear implants has been shown to impact the speech perception performance of adult recipients (Skinner et al, 1995; Fourakis et al, 2004). While technological limitations heretofore have limited the clinical feasibility of investigating novel frequency assignments, the SPEAR3 research processor affords the opportunity to investigate an unlimited number of possibilities. Here, four different assignments are evaluated using a variety of speech stimuli. All participants accommodated to assignment changes, and no one assignment was significantly preferred. The results suggest that better performance can be achieved using a strategy whereby (1) there are at least 7-8 electrodes allocated below 1000 Hz, (2) the majority of remaining electrodes are allocated between 1100 - 3000 Hz, and (3) the region above 3 kHz is represented by relatively few electrodes (i.e., 1-3). The results suggest that such frequency assignment flexibility should be made clinically available. La escogencia de límites de frecuencia para los canales de análisis de los implantes cocleares se ha visto que impacta el desempeño en la percepción del lenguaje de adultos implantados (Skinner y col, 1995; Fourakis y col, 2004). Mientras que las limitaciones tecnológicas hasta este momento han restringido la factibilidad clínica de investigar nuevas asignaciones de frecuencia, el procesador experimental SPEAR3 ofrece la oportunidad de investigar un número ilimitado de posibilidades. Aquí, se evalúan cuatro asignaciones diferentes utilizando una variedad de estímulos de lenguaje. Todos los participantes se acomodaron a los cambios de asignación y ninguna asignación tuvo una preferencia significativa. Los resultados sugieren que puede obtenerse un desempeño mejor utilizando una estrategia donde (1) existan al menos 7-8 electrodos colocados por debajo de 1000 Hz, (2) la mayoría de los electrodos remanentes sean colocados entre 1100 – 3000 Hz, y (3) la región por encima de 3 kHz esté representada por relativamente pocos electrodos (p.e., 1-3). Los resultados sugieren que tal flexibilidad en la asignación de frecuencias debería estar clínicamente disponible.


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 1094-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Riss ◽  
Jafar-Sasan Hamzavi ◽  
Andreas Selberherr ◽  
Alexandra Kaider ◽  
Michaela Blineder ◽  
...  

ORL ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Müller ◽  
Stefan Brill ◽  
Rudolf Hagen ◽  
Alexander Moeltner ◽  
Steffi-Johanna Brockmeier ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 2073-2083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Henry ◽  
Kassidy N. Amburgey ◽  
Kristina S. Abrams ◽  
Fabio Idrobo ◽  
Laurel H. Carney

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document