| Presentation | 2018-10-27 Investigation of a hearing aid processing based on an adaptive compression of audible spectral peaks. Takehiro Ueda, Takasuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Sakata, Akira Watanabe, Yuichi Ueda, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | If the transmission of formant information in speech signal is disturbed by hearing loss, speech articulation decreases. Therefore, we proposed a formant decomposition type of hearing aid method, which selectively amplifies speech formants into his/her audible range using the extracted formant frequencies. However, this method is limited to speech signal with formant. In this study, we propose a new hearing aid method based on an adaptive compression of audible spectral peaks, which extends the idea of selective compression of higher-level bands like formants to non-speech signal. In this paper, we explain the principle of the proposed spectral compression method and then show compression examples using this method using some kinds of signals. We confirmed that the proposed method is able to compress harmonic components of musical tones as well as speech formants and to produce speech with less sound quality degradation. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Hearing aid / Formant / Spectrum compression / Least Squares Approximation / Weighted spectrum |
| Paper # | SP2018-37,WIT2018-25 |
| Date of Issue | 2018-10-20 (SP, WIT) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | WIT / SP |
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| Conference Date | 2018/10/27(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kitakyushu) |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Chair | Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Yoichi Yamashita(Ritsumeikan Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Daisuke Wakatsuki(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Akinobu Ri(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Secretary | Daisuke Wakatsuki(AIST) / Akinobu Ri(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Assistant | Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Takeaki Shionome(Teikyo Univ.) / Takashi Handa(Saitama Industrial Tech. Center) / Tomoki Koriyama(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Satoshi Kobashikawa(NTT) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology / Technical Committee on Speech |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Investigation of a hearing aid processing based on an adaptive compression of audible spectral peaks. |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Hearing aid |
| Keyword(2) | Formant |
| Keyword(3) | Spectrum compression |
| Keyword(4) | Least Squares Approximation |
| Keyword(5) | Weighted spectrum |
| 1st Author's Name | Takehiro Ueda |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takasuke Kinoshita |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Tadashi Sakata |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Akira Watanabe |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Yuichi Ueda |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.) |
| Date | 2018-10-27 |
| Paper # | SP2018-37,WIT2018-25 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.118 |
| Number (no) | SP-269,WIT-270 |
| Page | pp.pp.25-30(SP), pp.25-30(WIT), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2018-10-20 (SP, WIT) |