Abstract:Elderly listeners with sensorineural hearing loss have difficulty understanding speech over the telephone. Hearing aids and telephone amplifiers help, but many elderly individuals do not have the access to these devices. One possible solution to the problem is to ‘‘preprocess’’ the speech at the talker before transmitting it to the hearing-impaired listener. The purpose of this research is to compare processing techniques applied at the talker end that can significantly improve the speech understanding of thes… Show more
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