In human hearing, frequency resolution is a term used to determine how well the ear can separate and distinguish two sounds that are close in frequency. This capability of breaking speech sounds into various frequency components plays a key role in processing and understanding speech information. In this paper, a piecewise-linear frequency shifting algorithm for digital hearing aids is proposed...

The paper addresses the problem of discrimination of homographs when a lengthy segment of an uttered word is missing. The considered discrimination procedure is done by recognizer that operates on cepstrum coefficients extracted from the speech signal. For restoration of the missing speech segment rather than use of the known speech signal, it has been proposed to calculate speech signal charac...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of intratympanic methylprednisolone injections for treating sudden sensorineural hearing loss. METHOD A retrospective chart review was performed to identify patients suffering from sudden sensorineural hearing loss with no recovery after oral steroids. Patients were given up to three intratympanic methylprednisolone injections at one-week intervals. They we...

During the last decade, research in the field of Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) has experienced increasing growth. However, the design and optimization of SDS is not only about combining speech and language processing systems such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), parsers, Natural Language Generation (NLG), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis systems. It also requires the development of dial...

In the task of Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), Intent Classification techniques have been applied to different domains of Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS). Recently it was shown that intent classification performance can be improved with Semantic Role (SR) information. However, using SR information for SDS encounters two difficulties: 1) the stateof-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) sy...

The development of speech perception during the 1st year reflects increasing attunement to native language features, but the mechanisms underlying this development are not completely understood. One previous study linked reductions in nonnative speech discrimination to performance on nonlinguistic tasks, whereas other studies have shown associations between speech perception and vocabulary grow...

In this paper, an approach for robust signing signal detection in speech/music discrimination is proposed and applied to applications of audio indexing. Conventional approaches in speech/music discrimination can provide reasonable performance with regular music signals but often perform poorly with singing segments. This is due mainly to the fact that speech and singing signals are extremely cl...