Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research (대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지)

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Performance Evaluation of Speech Onset Representation Characteristic of Cochlear Implants Speech Processor using Spike Train Decoding

Spike Train Decoding에 기반한 인공와우 어음처리기의 음성시작점 정보 전달특성 평가

  • Kim, Doo-Hee (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Health Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Ho (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Health Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim, Kyung-Hwan (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Health Science, Yonsei University)
  • 김두희 (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부) ;
  • 김진호 (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부) ;
  • 김경환 (연세대학교 보건과학대학 의공학부)
  • Published : 2007.10.31
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Abstract

The adaptation effect originating from the chemical synapse between auditory nerve and inner hair cell gives advantage in accurate representation of temporal cues of incoming speech such as speech onset. Thus it is expected that the modification of conventional speech processing strategies of cochlear implant(CI) by incorporating the adaptation effect will result in considerable improvement of speech perception performance such as consonant perception score. Our purpose in this paper was to evaluate our new CI speech processing strategy incorporating the adaptation effect by the observation of auditory nerve responses. By classifying the presence or absence of speech from the auditory nerve responses, i. e. spike trains, we could quantitatively compare speech onset detection performances of conventional and improved strategies. We could verify the effectiveness of the adaptation effect in improving the speech onset representation characteristics.

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