Speech recognition with varying numbers and types of competing talkers by normal-hearing, cochlear-implant, and implant simulation subjects
Speech recognition with varying numbers and types of competing talkers by normal-hearing, cochlear-implant, and implant simulation subjects
Listening in noisy places is challenging, especially with hearing impairment. Unfortunately it is unavoidable in many social, educational and work situations. Speech understanding in continuous noise eg white noise is well understood, but in real life the background is typically people talking. This project used men, women, and children talking to evaluate speech understanding in normal-hearing people, cochlear implant users, and normal-hearing people using a cochlear implant simulation. Results showed that the use of continuous backgrounds underestimates difficulties experienced by cochlear implant users. Children talking in the background was surprisingly demanding, perhaps suggesting an evolutionary trait of not ignoring children.
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Cullington, Helen E.
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Zeng, Fan-Gang
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January 2008
Cullington, Helen E.
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Zeng, Fan-Gang
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Cullington, Helen E. and Zeng, Fan-Gang
(2008)
Speech recognition with varying numbers and types of competing talkers by normal-hearing, cochlear-implant, and implant simulation subjects.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (1), .
(doi:10.1121/1.2805617).
Abstract
Listening in noisy places is challenging, especially with hearing impairment. Unfortunately it is unavoidable in many social, educational and work situations. Speech understanding in continuous noise eg white noise is well understood, but in real life the background is typically people talking. This project used men, women, and children talking to evaluate speech understanding in normal-hearing people, cochlear implant users, and normal-hearing people using a cochlear implant simulation. Results showed that the use of continuous backgrounds underestimates difficulties experienced by cochlear implant users. Children talking in the background was surprisingly demanding, perhaps suggesting an evolutionary trait of not ignoring children.
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Published date: January 2008
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/65192
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