Introduction  A cochlear implant in adolescent patients with pre-lingual deafness is still a debatable issue. Objective  The objective of this study is to analyze and compare the development of auditory speech perception in children with pre-lingual auditory impairment submitted to cochlear implant, in different age groups in the first year after implantation. Method  This is a retrospective st...

Many hearing-impaired listeners struggle to localize sounds due to poor availability of binaural cues. Listeners with a cochlear implant and a contralateral hearing aid - so-called bimodal listeners - are amongst the worst performers, as both interaural time and level differences are poorly transmitted. We present a new method to enhance head shadow in the low frequencies. Head shadow enhanceme...

We conducted a cross-sectional study in 40 schools in Karkala Taluk, Karnataka to evaluate whether they met the 10 criteria of Child Friendly School Initiative as recommended by Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Data were collected using a predesigned proforma by talking to the headmaster and school teachers and inspection of the premises for various facilities. We found that none of the schools me...

Sound information in video plays an important role in constructing audience experience. On the other hand, there are many circumstances where the audience cannot watch video with sounds. Subscripts are conventionally used as visual aids to provide the missing sound information. However, conventional subscripts are far less expressive for non-verbal sounds since it is designed to visualize speec...

‘One-way translation’ has been proposed by Ward (2002) as an alternative to full-blown speech-to-speech translation. A one-way translation system is a cross-language communication aid located on a wearable device that uses graphical or other input to generate a spoken utterance, for example when buying a train ticket in a foreign language. We argue that this type of application is an opportunit...

The paper describes advances in the development of an ultrasound silent speech interface for use in silent communications applications or as a speaking aid for persons who have undergone a laryngectomy. It reports some first steps towards making such a device lightweight, portable, interactive, and practical to use. Simple experimental tests of an interactive silent speech interface for everyda...

Research under this contract is broadly concerned with the relationship between the electroacoustic characteristics of hearing aids and their successful use by the hearing-impaired. We seek the elusive link between the physical and the behavioral: the extent to which differences in electroacoustic factors affect the listener's ability to understand speech through the aid. The present report is ...

OBJECTIVE To report on the safety and efficacy of an investigational active middle ear implant (AMEI) in Japan, and to compare results to preoperative results with a hearing aid. DESIGN Prospective study conducted in Japan in which 23 Japanese-speaking adults suffering from conductive or mixed hearing loss received a VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE with implantation at the round window. Postoperative thr...

Speech disturbances reflecting impaired laryngeal control were found in ten patients whose autonomic dysfunction was associated with central neurological disease (Shy Drager Syndrome). In contrast, ten patients with progressive autonomic failure without evidence of CNS involvement had no difficulties on speech function tasks in comparison with normal controls. Presence of speech symptoms may ai...