Auditory Training in Speech Recognition and Hyperacuity

Auditory Training in Speech Recognition and Hyperacuity

For those suffering from hearing impairment, there can be a significant reduction in quality of life as a direct result of their affliction. As a primary sense, hearing impairment can affect everything from individual safety to the inner ear balance. Depending on how an individual comes to suffer from hearing impairment, an assortment of complications could further afflict patients down the lin...

Speech development and auditory performance in children after cochlear implantation

 Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (CI) on speech intelligibility. Methods: Aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for CI. All children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. They were followed up until 5...

Auditory-based automatic speech recognition

In this paper we develop a physiologically motivated model of peripheral auditory processing and evaluate how the different processing steps influence automatic speech recognition in noise. The model features large dynamic compression (>60 dB) and a realistic sensory cell model. The compression range was well matched to the limited dynamic range of the sensory cells and the model yielded surpri...

Robust Speech Recognition Training

The Auditory Processing and Recognition of Speech

We are carrying out investigations into the application of biophysical and computational models to speech processing. Described here are studies of the robustness of a speech representation using a biophysical model of the cochlea; experimental results on the representation of speech and complex sounds in the mammalian auditory cortex; and descriptions of computational sequential processing net...