Abstract
Compressive hearing aids automatically reduce their gain with increasing sound level to accommodate reduced dynamic ranges in sensorineural hearing loss. Hearing-impaired people can also benefit from waveform compression that strengthens consonant sounds relative to vowels. The normal ear accomplishes both forms of compressive signal processing with instantaneously compressing bandpass nonlinearity (BPNL) filters under efferent control. Guided by development of this basic knowledge, we have implemented a real-time PC simulation of a multi-channel DSP hearing aid with programmable gain and waveform compression options. Prescription fitting is being developed through clinical study of patient preferences and speech intelligibility.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 391-398 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Conference Record of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers |
| Volume | 1 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers - Pacific Grove, CA, United States Duration: Nov 9 2003 → Nov 12 2003 |