Acoustic characteristics of sibilant fricatives and affricates in Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants

J Yang, L Xu - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The purpose of the study was to examine the acoustic features of sibilant fricatives and
affricates produced by prelingually deafened Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear …

Effects of adaptive non-linear frequency compression in hearing aids on Mandarin speech and sound-quality perception

S Qi, X Chen, J Yang, X Wang, X Tian… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective This study was aimed at examining the effects of an adaptive non-linear frequency
compression algorithm implemented in hearing aids (ie, SoundRecover2, or SR2) at …

Comparable encoding, comparable perceptual pattern: Acoustic and electric hearing

F Kong, H Zhou, Y Mo, M Shi, Q Meng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perception with electric neuroprostheses is sometimes expected to be simulated using
properly designed physical stimuli. Here, we examined a new acoustic vocoder model for …

Effect of frequency compression on fricative perception between normal-hearing English and Mandarin listeners

A Roy, A Bradlow, P Souza - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
High-frequency speech information is susceptible to inaccurate perception in even mild to
moderate forms of hearing loss. Some hearing aids employ frequency-lowering methods …

Effects of nonlinear frequency compression on Mandarin speech and sound-quality perception in hearing-aid users

X Chen, Y You, J Yang, J Qian, Q Lu… - … journal of audiology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of NLFC fitting in
hearing aids and auditory acclimatisation on speech perception and sound-quality rating in …

Intelligibility of Word-Initial Obstruent Consonants in Mandarin-Speaking Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants

J Yang, X Wang, J Yu, L Xu - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: This study assessed the intelligibility of obstruent consonants in prelingually
deafened Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Twenty-two …

听觉脑干植入声码器模型的开发及验证

张钦杰, 黄穗, 谭皓月, 周祥, 王君怡… - 上海交通大学学报 …, 2024 - xuebao.shsmu.edu.cn
目的· 基于人工耳蜗(cochlear implant, CI) 声码器及听觉脑干植入(auditory brainstem implant,
ABI) 电极阵列排布特征, 开发ABI 声码器并验证其可靠性. 方法· 通过MATLAB 软件构建“n-of-m” …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of hearing loss and amplification on Mandarin consonant perception

H Zhou, X Bei, H Xu, Y Sun, Z Lin, N Zheng… - Proc. Interspeech …, 2023 - isca-archive.org
This study investigates the effects of hearing loss and amplification on Mandarin consonant
perception. 44 listeners with varying degrees of hearing loss were tested, both with and …

Establishment and verification of auditory brainstem implant vocoder model

Z Qinjie, H Sui, TAN Haoyue, Z Xiang… - Journal of Shanghai …, 2024 - xuebao.shsmu.edu.cn
Objective· To develope an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) vocoder based on cochlear
implant (CI) vocoder characteristics and ABI electrode array topology, and to verify its …

Speech perception and sound-quality rating with an adaptive nonlinear frequency compression algorithm in Mandarin-speaking hearing aid users

L Xu, SC Voss, J Yang, X Wang, Q Lu… - Journal of the …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Background Mandarin Chinese has a rich repertoire of high-frequency speech sounds. This
may pose a remarkable challenge to hearing-impaired listeners who speak Mandarin …