The Spatial Selective Auditory Attention of Cochlear Implant Users in Different Conversational Sound Levels

no code implementations • 3 Mar 2021 • Sara Akbarzadeh, Sungmin Lee, Chin-Tuan Tan

This study attempted to investigate the effect of conversational sound levels on the mechanisms adopted by CI and NH listeners in selective auditory attention and how it affects their daily conversation.

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The effect of speech and noise levels on the quality perceived by cochlear implant and normal hearing listeners

no code implementations • 3 Mar 2021 • Sara Akbarzadeh, Sungmin Lee, Fei Chen, Chin-Tuan Tan

Noise reduction (NR) algorithms used in CI reduce the noise in favor of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), regardless of plausible accompanying distortions that may degrade the speech quality perception.