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Measurement Of Phonemic Degradation In Sensorineural Hearing Loss Using A Computational Model Of The Auditory Periphery, Andrew Hines, Naomi Harte
Measurement Of Phonemic Degradation In Sensorineural Hearing Loss Using A Computational Model Of The Auditory Periphery, Andrew Hines, Naomi Harte
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A computational model of the auditory periphery enables faster investigation of new signal processing algorithms for hearing aids. This paper presents a study of the degradation of auditory nerve (AN) responses at a phonetic level for a range of sensorineural hearing losses. The AN model of Zilany & Bruce was used to compute responses to a diverse set of phoneme rich sentences from the TIMIT database. The characteristics of both the average discharge rate and spike timing of the responses are discussed. The experiments demonstrate that the model responses are consistent with respect to impairment and inaudible thresholds.
Error Metrics For Impaired Auditory Nerve Responses Of Different Phoneme Groups, Andrew Hines, Naomi Harte
Error Metrics For Impaired Auditory Nerve Responses Of Different Phoneme Groups, Andrew Hines, Naomi Harte
Conference papers
An auditory nerve model allows faster investigation of new signal processing algorithms for hearing aids. This paper presents a study of the degradation of auditory nerve (AN) responses at a phonetic level for a range of sensorineural hearing losses and flat audiograms. The AN model of Zilany & Bruce was used to compute responses to a diverse set of phoneme rich sentences from the TIMIT database. The characteristics of both the average discharge rate and spike timing of the responses are discussed. The experiments demonstrate that a mean absolute error metric provides a useful measure of average discharge rates but …