| Presentation | 2008-03-23 Proposal of a Weighted-SPEAK method for cochlear implant system and design of its evaluation simulator Masayuki SATO, Masato IKUYAMA, Dan NISHIKIDO, Hiroki TOYOSHIMA, Tadashi SAKATA, Yuichi UEDA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | A hybrid method, which have proposed as a speech processor for the cochlear implant, is a mixture type of a general-purpose SPEAK (spectral peak) method and a FPEAK (formant peak) method by the formant encoding. However, the hybrid method had a problem of perceiving discontinuities where voiced/unvoiced (V/U) sound was changed or a problem of mistaking some V/U decisions. Then, in order to improve those problems, we proposed a new type of W-SPEAK (weighted-SPEAK) method, and confirmed the effectiveness of it by auditory evaluations of a speech intelligibility. In addition, we introduce a CI-simulator (cochlear implant simulator) developed to investigate and evaluate the performance of speech encoding. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Cochlea implant / Spectral Peak Method / Formant Peak Method / Hybrid Method / Weighted-SPEAK Method / CI-simulator |
| Paper # | WIT2007-105 |
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| Conference Date | 2008/3/15(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Proposal of a Weighted-SPEAK method for cochlear implant system and design of its evaluation simulator |
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| Keyword(1) | Cochlea implant |
| Keyword(2) | Spectral Peak Method |
| Keyword(3) | Formant Peak Method |
| Keyword(4) | Hybrid Method |
| Keyword(5) | Weighted-SPEAK Method |
| Keyword(6) | CI-simulator |
| 1st Author's Name | Masayuki SATO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto Prefectual College of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Masato IKUYAMA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Dan NISHIKIDO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University |
| 4th Author's Name | Hiroki TOYOSHIMA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University |
| 5th Author's Name | Tadashi SAKATA |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University |
| 6th Author's Name | Yuichi UEDA |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University |
| Date | 2008-03-23 |
| Paper # | WIT2007-105 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.107 |
| Number (no) | 555 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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