With a cochlear implant deaf people are able to recognize speech and acoustic signals. Problems occur in adverse conditions, e.g. in reverberant and/or noisy environments. Experiments were carried out to improve the intelligibility of noisy speech using a modified spectral subtraction technique. This was realized as a kind of preprocessing by applying the resynthesized speech signal to the cochlea implant system. Intelligibility tests were done in collaboration with the clinical hospital in Aachen.
Cite as: Hirsch, H.-G. (1992) Intelligibility improvement of noisy speech for people with cochlear implants. Proc. ETRW on Speech Processing in Adverse Conditions, 69-72
@inproceedings{hirsch92_spac,
author={Hans-Günter Hirsch},
title={{Intelligibility improvement of noisy speech for people with cochlear implants}},
year=1992,
booktitle={Proc. ETRW on Speech Processing in Adverse Conditions},
pages={69--72}
}