Infrared laser hearing aid: Encoding method for creating linguistic and paralinguistic information

An Evaluation of Bone-conducted Ultrasonic Hearing Aid regarding Perception of Paralinguistic Information

Human listeners can perceive speech signals in a voicemodulated ultrasonic carrier from a bone-conduction stimulator, even if the listeners are patients with sensorineural hearing loss. Considering this fact, we have been developing a boneconducted ultrasonic hearing aid (BCUHA). This paper reports an evaluation of the BCUHA; the evaluation was carried out by considering the transmission of par...

A method for translation of paralinguistic information

This paper is concerned with speech-to-speech translation that is sensitive to paralinguistic information. From themany different possible paralinguistic features to handle, in this paper we chose duration and power as a first step, proposing a method that can translate these features from input speech to the output speech in continuous space. This is done in a simple and language-independent f...

The infrared light transmission hearing aid.

Recognizing the inherent weakness of the conventional hearing aid, we have developed a totally new design for hearing aids utilizing infrared (IR) light transmission. The hearing aid transmits the auditory message not as an acoustic wave, but as an infrared light beam. The invisible light beam carries the signal directly from a microphone near the speaker to the listener without any appreciable...

Evaluation of bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing-aid regarding transmission of paralinguistic information: a comparison with cochlear implant simulator

Human listeners can perceive speech signals in a voicemodulated ultrasonic carrier from a bone-conduction stimulator, even if the listeners are patients with sensorineural hearing loss. Considering this fact, we have been developing a bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing aid (BCUHA). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability of BCUHA regarding transmission of paralinguistic informatio...

Encoding And Reusing Linguistic Information Expressed By Linguistic Properties