UNLABELLED Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential is a measure of synchronous cochlear nerve fibers activity elicited by electrical stimulation of the cochlear implant. The electrophysiological nerve responses may contribute to explain the variability in individual performance of cochlear implant recipients. AIM To compare speech perception tests performances of cochlear implant users ...

In multi-band frequency compression, the speech spectrum is divided into a number of analysis bands, and the spectral samples in each band are compressed towards the band center by a constant compression factor, resulting in presentation of the speech energy in relatively narrow bands, for reducing the effect of increased intraspeech spectral masking associated with sensorineural hearing loss. ...

The aim of this study was to compare the personality traits of adolescents with cochlear implants (CIs) to a reference group (normal-hearing peers). In the past, the personality development of hearing impaired adolescents was severely compromised. Improved speech perception with CI significantly increased their perspectives. In addition, differences between the reference group and CI users were...

The issue of cochlear implantation in deaf children with associated disabilities is an emerging subject. Currently, there is no consensus on whether to implant children with multiple impairments; moreover, it may be difficult to evaluate these children with standard tests pre- or post-implantation. In addition, these children often have poor speech perception and language skills, making assessm...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the speech perception and language development with cochlear implants (CI) of DFNB1 children in comparison with non-DFNB1 deaf children. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Academic tertiary center. RESULTS Thirty-one congenitally deafened children, screened for GJB2 allele variants, were followed for an average 32 months after CI. With the use of age-app...

Focusing on flexible applications for limited computing devices, this paper investigates the improvement on the visual speech perception obtained by the implicitly modeling of coarticulation on a sample-based talking head that is characterized by a compact image database and a morphing visemes synthesis strategy. Speech intelligibility tests were applied to assess the effectiveness of the propo...

PURPOSE To compare the speech recognition performance of young adult listeners with normal hearing in 2 college classrooms, only 1 of which met American National Standards Institute (ANSI) S12.60-2002 acoustic standards. Also, differences in speech recognition performance were compared in both classrooms with and without the use of a classroom amplification system. The speech was presented at l...

DOI 10.1027/0044-3409.216.3.162 Abstract. Three measures have been found to be predictive of developmental language impairment: nonword repetition, the production of English past tense, and categorical speech perception. Despite this, direct comparisons of these tasks have been limited. The present study explored the associations between these measures and other language and cognitive skills in...