Speech perception by cochlear implant (CI) users can be very good in quiet but their speech
intelligibility (SI) performance decreases in noisy environments. Because recent studies …

Recent studies have shown that transient parts of a speech signal contribute most to speech
intelligibility in normal-hearing listeners. In this study, the influence of enhancing the onsets …

Because frequency components interact nonlinearly with each other inside the cochlea, the
loudness growth of tones is relatively simple in comparison to the loudness growth of …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of combining speech modification techniques that
enhance transition components with active noise cancellation to improve the intelligibility of …

In this paper, we propose a robust time-frequency decomposition (RTFD) model to restore
audio signals degraded by sparse impulse noise mixed with small dense Gaussian noise …

The optimization of a wavelet-based algorithm to improve speech intelligibility along with the
full data set and results are reported. The discrete-time speech signal is split into frequency …

The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a powerful neurophysiological measure to
diagnose hearing deficits along the auditory pathway. Wave I of the ABRs is particularly …

In this work, we compare two skewness-based salient event detector algorithms, which can
detect transients in human speech signals. Speech transients are characterized by rapid …

Speech intelligibility refers to the comprehensibility of speech, and is comprised of the
speaker, the listener, and the listening environment. Factors that affect speech intelligibility …

Objective: Normal auditory systems appear well habituated to time/phase delays inherent to
sound encoding along the hearing organ, sending frequency information non …