Objectives. We evaluated the causes, hearing, and speech performance before and after cochlear implant reimplantation in Mandarin-speaking users. Methods. In total, 589 patients who underwent cochlear implantation in our medical center between 1999 and 2014 were reviewed retrospectively. Data related to demographics, etiologies, implant-related information, complications, and hearing and speech...

Convolutive non-negative matrix factorization (CNMF) and deep neural networks (DNN) are two efficient methods for monaural speech separation. Conventional DNN focuses on building the non-linear relationship between mixture and target speech. However, it ignores the prominent structure of the target speech. Conventional CNMF model concentrates on capturing prominent harmonic structures and tempo...

Neologism and private usage of stock words have long been considered as uncommon disorders of schizophrenic thought and speech.however,,a review of current literature and psychiatric textbooks reveals few clinical examples.in this article a paranoid  schizophrenic patient with extensive speech disorder has been presented and his neologistic production,private meaning of stoch words and other sp...

this paper introduces a novel approach to improve performance of speech recognition systems using a combination of features obtained from speech reconstructed phase space (rps) and frequency domain analysis. by choosing an appropriate value for the dimension, reconstructed phase space is assured to be topologically equivalent to the dynamics of the speech production system, and could therefore ...

Troy, New York, is a city of 55,000 people in upstate New York located along the Hudson River. A city of surprisingly rich cultural heritage, it was the home of New York state's first hospital outside New York City. The 50th anniversary celebration of Troy's hospital brought William Osler to the city as the keynote speaker. This speech, delivered on November 28, 1900, is one of Sir William's le...

account of the several works that came from Digby's pen and, if one might judge from his Private Memoirs, his over-active brain. But even in this involved field of authorship one fails to find a solution to the strange uncertainties and contradictions that made Digby, Digby. Even the "powder of sympathy" in all its implications affords no explanation. Nevertheless, Sir Kenelm could not well be ...