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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2011.60.6.1196

The Assessment on the Sound Quality of Reduced Frequency Selectivity of Hearing Impaired People  

An, Hong-Sub (인하대학교 전자공학과)
Park, Gyu-Seok (인하대학교 전자공학과)
Jeon, Yu-Yong (인하대학교 전자공학과)
Song, Young-Rok (인하대학교 정보전자공동연구소)
Lee, Sang-Min (인하대학교, 전자공학과, 인하대학교 정보전자 공동연구소)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.60, no.6, 2011 , pp. 1196-1203 More about this Journal
Abstract
The reduced frequency selectivity is a typical phenomenon of sensorineural hearing loss. In this paper, we compared two modeling methods for reduced frequency selectivity of hearing impaired people. The two models of reduced frequency selectivity were made using LPC(linear prediction coding) algorithm and bandwidth control algorithm based on ERB(equivalent rectangular bandwidth) of auditory filter, respectively. To compare the effectiveness of two models, we compared the result of PESQ (perceptual evaluation of speech quality) and LLR(log likelihood ratio) using 36 Korean words of two syllables. To verify the effect on noise condition, we mixed white and babble noise with 0dB and -3dB SNR to speech words. As the result, it is confirmed that the PESQ score of bandwidth control algorithm is higher than the score of LPC algorithm, on the other hands, and the LLR score of LPC algorithm is lower than the score of bandwidth control algorithm. It means that both non-linearity and widen auditory filter characteristics caused by reduced frequency selectivity could be more reflected in bandwidth control algorithm than in LPC algorithm.
Keywords
Reduced frequency selectivity; Widened auditory filter; ERB; LPC;
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