Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Computer Sciences
Abstract
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.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1049/CP.2009.1683
Recommended Citation
Hines, A. & Harte, N. (2009). Measurement of Phonemic Degradation in Sensorineural Hearing Loss using a Computational Model of the Auditory Periphery, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009. Brighton, United Kingdom, September 6-10. doi:10.1049/CP.2009.1683
Publication Details
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009.