Predictions from"speech banana"and audiograms: Assessment of hearing deficits in Thai hearing loss patients
Predictions from"speech banana"and audiograms: Assessment of hearing deficits in Thai hearing loss patients
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“言语香蕉”和听力图的预测:泰国听力损失患者听力缺陷的评估
DOI:
10.1121/1.4831179
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
P. Pitathawatchai
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作者:
N. Klangpornkun;C. Onsuwan;C. Tantibundhit;P. Pitathawatchai
“Speech banana” is a banana-shaped plot of speech power distribution, where the abscissa and ordinate represent frequency and intensity. By superimposing speech banana over an audiogram, tested with pure tones, degrees of gain or loss of individual speech sound could be predicted. Speech banana has been constructed for English (Northern and Downs, 1984) and Swedish (Liden and Fant, 1954); however, none has been proposed for tonal languages, such as Thai. This work presents a construction of speech banana for Thai, a language with 21 consonants and 5 lexical tones. Specifically, intensity of each phoneme in the speech banana was calculated by differences of sound pressure level between the local maxima of power spectral density and equal loudness contour at 0 dB. Distribution of the 21 consonants is around 170-5700 Hz and 25-65 dB. Predictions of gain or loss of the phonemes from the constructed speech banana and audiograms were evaluated based on perception test results from seven Thai sensori-neural hear...