OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS A piezoelectric sensor, floating piezoelectric microphone, driven by acoustic vibration of the ossicles, is one possible design for a microphone for a totally implantable cochlear implant. The purpose of the article was to study the frequency response of the floating piezoelectric microphone and to identify the ideal feasible position in the ossicular chain. STUDY DESIGN...

Sound pressure measurements were made at the hearing aid microphones of 20 subjects with their in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aids and a behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aid to determine the influence of microphone location on hearing aid input. A probe tube microphone was used to measure the difference in dB SPL between the ITE and BTE microphone locations. ITE microphone location resulted in a maximum ...

This research was carried out on enhancing throat microphone speech for noise-robust speech keyword spotting. The enhancement was performed by mapping the log-energy in the Mel-frequency bands of throat microphone speech to those of the corresponding close-talk microphone speech. An analytic equation detection system, Eureqa, which can infer nonlinear relations directly from observed data, was ...

Silicon Laboratories' capacitive sensing techniques are compatible with external ESD protection methods. Designers should be aware of parasitic parameters in these circuits which affect capacitive sensing performance when implementing these protection methods. While most of the methods affect sensing performance in some way, in almost all cases an acceptable balance between performance, protect...

A wide variety of microphone arrays have been developed, and the authors have also proposed a type of equally-spaced small-scale microphone array. In this approach, a paired-microphone is selected at each frequency to design a subtractive beamformer that can estimate a noise spectrum. This paper introduces a nonequally-spaced microphone arrangement, which might give more spatial information tha...

The signal-to-noise ratio advantage of a directional microphone is achieved by reducing the sensitivity of the microphone to sounds from the sides and back. A fully adaptive directional microphone (one that automatically switches between an omnidirectional mode and various directional polar patterns) may allow the achievement of signal-to-noise (SNR) improvement with minimal loss on audibility ...

Microphone sensor systems provide information that may be used for a variety of applications. Such systems generate large amounts of data. One concern is with microphone failure and unusual values that may be generated as part of the information collection process. This paper describes methods and a MATLAB graphical interface that provides rapid evaluation of microphone performance and identifi...

Fixed broadband beamformers using small-sized microphone arrays are known to be highly sensitive to errors in the microphone array characteristics. This paper describes a procedure for designing broadband beamformers with an arbitrary spatial directivity pattern, which are robust against errors in the microphone positions. The presented design procedure optimises the mean performance of the bro...

ABSTRACT We present a comparison of the measured and theoretical performance of a 24 microphone baffled circular microphone array. The signal-to-noise ratio of the circular microphone array is obtained by analysing the spatial aliasing error, the microphone placement error, and the white noise gain. The circular microphone array has a frequency range of operation from 50 Hz to 16 kHz, and we sh...