Human listeners can perceive speech signals in a voicemodulated ultrasonic carrier from a bone-conduction stimulator, even if the listeners are patients with sensorineural hearing loss. Considering this fact, we have been developing a bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing aid (BCUHA). The purpose of this study was to assess the usefulness of the BCUHA in transmission of speakers’ physical attributes: gender and age. The evaluation used gender and age-identification experiments. The experiments were also conduced under air-conduction (AC) and cochlear implant simulator (CIsim) conditions. The results showed that: the BCUHA can well transmit speakers’ gender information; the BCUHA can transmit speaker age information better than CIsim.
Cite as: Kagomiya, T., Nakagawa, S. (2014) Evaluation of bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing-aid regarding transmission of speaker gender and age information. Proc. Speech Prosody 2014, 467-471, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-81
@inproceedings{kagomiya14_speechprosody,
author={Takayuki Kagomiya and Seiji Nakagawa},
title={{Evaluation of bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing-aid regarding transmission of speaker gender and age information}},
year=2014,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2014},
pages={467--471},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-81}
}