Introduction: Aging reduces the ability to understand speech in noise. Hearing rehabilitation is one of the ways to help older people communicate effectively. This study aimed to investigate the effect of vowel auditory training on the improvement of speech-in-noise (SIN) perception among elderly listeners.   Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 36 elderly ...

This paper comparatively analyzes six different word alignment heuristics and their impacts on translation quality. We also propose a method to filter the noise in the phrase tables extracted by these heuristic methods and examine the effectiveness of combination of the methods. Experiments are performed on the Europarl corpus, where a multilingual in-domain training corpus, an in-domain test s...

unknown noise and artifacts present in medical signals with  non-linear fuzzy filter will be estimate and then removed. an adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system which has a nonlinear  structure presented  for the noise function prediction by before samples. this paper is about a neuro-fuzzy method to estimate unknown noise of electrocardiogram (ecg) signal. adaptive neural combined with fuzz...

This study explored a range of training dosages and durations for a word-based auditory-training procedure for older adults with hearing impairment. Three groups received a different "dose": 2x/week; 3x/week; no training. Fifteen training sessions comprised a "cycle" which was repeated three times for each dosage. Groups that completed training performed significantly better than controls for s...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a word-based auditory-training procedure for use with older adults who have impaired hearing. The emphasis during training and assessment is placed on words with a high frequency of occurrence in American English. DESIGN In this study, a repeated-measures group design was used with each of the two groups of participants to...

In this study, we introduce a new approach for learning language models by training them to estimate word-context pointwise mutual information (PMI), and then deriving the desired conditional probabilities from PMI at test time. Specifically, we show that with minor modifications to word2vec’s algorithm, we get principled language models that are closely related to the well-established Noise Co...

background and aim: different tests have been developed to evaluate reduced ability of speech perception in noise, and the words-in-noise test is one of the easiest ones in terms of speech materials. this study aimed to develop and determine the validity and reliability of the persian version of the words-in-noise (win) test for 7 to 12-year-old children. methods: this research is a tool-making...