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End date: 1989 × Start date: 1980 × Type: Conference Item × Subject: otolaryngology × Subject: speech processor ×

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    Speech processing for a multiple-channel cochlear implant
    Tong, Y. C. ; Millar, J. B. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Martin, L. F. ; Busby, P. A. ( 1980)
    A laboratory speech processor has been developed for a multiple-channel cochlear implant prosthesis. The speech processor accepts the speech waveform as an input and produces a pattern of electrical stimulus data as output. The electrical stimulus data are transmitted to the implanted receiver-stimulator by a transmitter which is external to the speech processor. Four speech signal parameters were estimated every 20 ms in the parameter estimation section of the speech processor. These parameters included the fundamental frequency (FO), a low frequency energy measure (AO) , the second formant frequency (F2) and its amplitude (A2).
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    Speech processor design for a multiple-channel cochlear implant
    Tong, Y. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Busby, P. A. ; Millar, J. B. ; Martin, L. F. ( 1980)
    This paper outlines the strategy adopted for a laboratory-based speech processor used to provide speech information to patients with a multiple-channel cochlear implant It also presents the results of vowel and consonant recognition studies and speech test using open sets of words and sentences.
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    The rehabilitation of patients with a total hearing loss using a multiple-channel cochlear implant [Abstract]
    Martin, L. F. A. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1980)
    Two profoundly deaf patients who have multiple-channel cochlear implants receive speech information through a speech processor. The speech processor encodes second formant and fundamental frequency information. Rehabilitation is concerned with evaluating the speech processor and training patients to improve speech perception. The patients have scores up to 37% and 27% on AB word lists, and 36% and 34% on NAL Everyday Sentences using the cochlear implant alone and repetition of the stimuli. However, to gain a better insight into the capabilities of the speech processor and to demonstrate its potential for the patients more investigative procedures have been used. These include the speech tracking method described by DeFillipo and Scott (1978) using the cochlear implant in conjunction with speech reading. Results indicate that patients have gained a two-fold and four-fold improvement in tracking rates (words per minute) using speech reading and the cochlear implant as opposed to speech reading alone.
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    Training and assessment of children using a multi-electrode cochlear implant [Abstract]
    Nienhuys, T. G. ; Roberts, S. A. ; Busby, P. A. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Blamey, P. J. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1986)
    A training and assessment protocol has been developed for a research study on deaf children using multi-electrode cochlear implants. The areas of assessment and training include speech perception and production, language and communication skills. Material which is appropriate for language-and developmental-age is selected from a large battery of: tests to ensure that the individual abilities of children are addressed. A single-subject, time-series design has been adopted for regular assessment of the child's performance. The participating child receives a minimum of six months' pre-operative training and assessment using high gain hearing aids or a tactile device. Also included are audiological and medical evaluations to determine the child's suitability for inclusion in the study. Approximately two months are allocated for pre-operative, operative and postoperative surgical management as well as fitting and setting the external speech processor. Post-operatively, the same training and assessment procedures continue for a number of years. Extensive psychophysical studies are also undertaken to measure the child's abilities to discriminate simple stimuli which differ in electrical stimulus parameter values.