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    Preliminary evaluation of a wearable multichannel electrotactile speech processor [Abstract]
    Cowan, R. S. C. ; Blamey, P. J. ; Alcantara, J. I. ; Whitford, L. W. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1988)
    Speech discrimination testing, using both open-and closed-set materials was carried out with four severely-to-profoundly hearing impaired adults. and seven normally hearing subjects, to assess performance of a wearable eight-channel electrotactile aid (Tickle Talker). The device consisted of a handset composed of nine electrodes, a stimulator-unit, and a speech processor and input microphone. Eight small electrodes were located over the digital nerve bundles on each side of the four fingers of one hand, and a larger common electrode was placed on the wrist. Subjects perceived eight separate channels of information, each corresponding to a stimulus on one side of one finger. The speech processor provided estimates of second formant frequency, fundamental frequency and amplitude of the speech waveform. These features were coded as electrode position, pulse rate and pulse width respectively. This processing strategy (FOF2AO) is similar to that used in an earlier model of the Cochlear Pty. Ltd. cochlear implant.