introduction:although several treatment approaches have been proposed for tinnitus, there are currently no food and drug administration (fda)-approved agents available to treat this condition. in this study, we evaluated the effect of gabapentin on the sensation of subjective tinnitus in patients with acoustic trauma referring to the ear, nose and throat (ent) clinic of taleghani hospital durin...

Harsh acoustic conditions limit the effectiveness of human speech communication to a great extent. There is a consensus that even at moderate SNR levels, traditional speech enhancement techniques tend to improve the perceptual quality of speech rather than its intelligibility. As an alternative, non-acoustic contact sensors have recently been developed for noise-robust signal capture. Although ...

We propose an information theoretic framework for quantitative assessment of acoustic modeling for hidden Markov model (HMM) based automatic speech recognition (ASR). Acoustic modeling yields the probabilities of HMM sub-word states for a short temporal window of speech acoustic features. We cast ASR as a communication channel where the input sub-word probabilities convey the information about ...

This study examines the relationship between online processing effects observed in earlier eye-tracking experiments [1, 2] and offline quality ratings gathered for the synthetic and natural speech stimuli used in these experiments, along with their acoustic-prosodic properties. White et al. [2] reported that even high-quality synthetic speech failed to replicate the facilitative effect of conte...