Tone Enhancement in Mandarin Speech for Listeners with Hearing Impairment
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概要
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In this paper, a digital processing method is described for modifying tone contrast that is defined as the greatest difference in frequencies between peaks and valleys of pitch curves in monosyllable utterances. Under quiet and noisy backgrounds, modified Mandarin tone words were presented to hearing-impaired Chinese listeners with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss. The listeners were asked to identify four alternative monosyllable words which were distinguishable by tones 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Employing this method, it was found that modified speech with enhanced tone contrast yielded moderate gains in the percentage of correct identification of the tones when compared to unmodified speech tones with only compression amplification. It was likewise found that reducing tone contrast generally reduced the degree of correct tone identification. These findings therefore offer support to the assertion that a hearing aid with tone modifications is indeed effective for hearing-impaired Chinese.
- 社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
- 2001-05-01
著者
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Li G
Tianjin University
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Lu Jian
Research Institute For Electronic Science Hokkaido University
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Ifukube Tohru
Research Center For Advanced Science And Technology The University Of Tokyo
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Ifukube Tohru
Research Institute For Electronic Science Hokkaido University
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Li Gang
Tianjin University
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UEMI Norihiro
Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University
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Uemi Norihiro
Research Institute For Electronic Science Hokkaido University
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Lu Jian
Research Center For Ubiquitous Mems And Micro Engineering (umemsme) National Institute Of Advanced Industrial Science And Technology (aist)
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