PURPOSE In this research, the authors aimed to increase the analogy between Text Reception Threshold (TRT; Zekveld, George, Kramer, Goverts, & Houtgast, 2007) and Speech Reception Threshold (SRT; Plomp & Mimpen, 1979) and to examine the TRT's value in estimating cognitive abilities that are important for speech comprehension in noise. METHOD The authors administered 5 TRT versions, SRT tests ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of the fixed and adaptive beamforming technology of the new MED-EL SONNET cochlear implant audio processor on speech perception in noise. METHODS The study cohort comprises 18 postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant recipients with at least six months of experience. Speech reception thresholds were measured with the Oldenburg Sentence Test in continuous...

A random access protocol for wireless networks was recently proposed in [16], that achieves high throughput by exploiting cooperative diversity of network nodes. According to that scheme, when a collision occurs, the network nodes bounce off the signal that they heard during the collision slot. The base station, by processing the collided packets and the relay transmissions can recover the coll...

Hearing tests: quantify the hearing abilities of people with both normal hearing and hearing impairments Speech reception threshold (SRT): SNR level at which the speech recognition rate of a person is 50% – Evaluating a listener’s hearing capabilities and diagnosing hearing loss – Adjusting the CI parameters and analyze the impact of new developments in CI devices – Provides useful data for psy...

Intelligibility in a telecommunication-based conference application can largely be improved, when the speech signals of the different interlocutors are presented spatially, and when the sources are spatially distributed. For the controlled exploitation of the underlying Cocktail Party Effect in speech chat applications, a prediction of the intelligibility related to a given spatial configuratio...