摘要
Temporalenvelopeisalowfrequencyamplitudemodulationconveyingsegmentalandsuprasegmentalinformationduringspeechperception.Unfortunately,weseldomfindourselvesincompletelyquietlisteningenvironmentsandnoise,commonlyfoundinthesurroundingenvironment,obscuresboththefinestructurecuesandpartlythetemporalenvelopecuesinspeech.Availabletemporalcontentofspeechemanatingfromnoiseisoftenenoughtoconveyrequiredinformationinnormalhearingindividuals.However,thecaseisdifferentinolderadults(withandwithouthearingloss)wholacksuchcapabilitiesduetotheimpairmentintemporalprocessing.Thiscallsattentionofaresearchertodelineatetheimportanceoftemporalenhancementofspeechinimprovingspeechperception.Therearemanytemporalenvelopestrategiesavailableintheliterature,buteachonehasitsownlacunae.Anenvelopeenhancementbyadeepbandmodulation(DBM)isfoundtobebeneficialforthoseindividualswhohavehadatemporalprocessingimpairment.Thereasoncouldbeattributedtothe15dBenhancementinthetemporalenvelopebandwidthbetween3and30Hz,extractedfromeachchannel,whichsignificantlyincreasesthemodulationdepthsuchthatmaskingofaconsonantbyavowelisminimized.Additionally,outputofdeepbandmodulatedspeechisrescaledsuchthatitsdurationincreasesanditprovidesrelativelyeasyaccesstothewordofthelexicon.Thus,inthenearfuture,withmoreexperimentsrelatedtoDBMalgorithm,itcanbeutilizedintherehabilitativedevicestolessentheimpactofthetemporalprocessingimpairment.
出版日期
2016年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)