SPEECH PROCESSORS FOR AUDITORY PROSTHESES

承包商应尽最大努力设计、开发和 评价用于植入式听觉假体的语音处理器 在聋人身上。 所有听觉假体的一个基本组成部分是 语音处理器，其功能是将宽带电 信号转换为信息压缩信号或一组信息压缩信号 用于驱动各个电植入刺激器的信号， 优化植入用户语音识别的方式。 的 承包商将继续努力， 与语音最相关的可穿戴语音处理因素 在具有不同信噪比的环境中的理解力，以及 利用这些信息开发新的语音处理策略。 他们 还将研究通过使用开发的可穿戴设备学习的效果， 在扩展测试期间，在先前植入患者中使用处理器 期 此外，还将开发新的测试材料， 有效的评估语言处理器在聋人与 植入听觉假体

The Contractor shall exert its best efforts to design, develop, and evaluate speech processors for use with implanted auditory prostheses in deaf humans. An essential component of all auditory prostheses is the speech processor whose function is to convert the wideban electrical signal from the microphone to an information condensed signal or set of signals for driving the individual electrical implant stimulators in a manner to optimize speech recognition by the implant users. The Contractor will continue efforts to develop laboratory based and wearable speech processing factors which best relate to speech comprehension in environments with different signal to noise levels, and develop new speech processing strategies using this information. They will also study the effects of learning by using the developed wearable processors in previously implanted patients over an extended testing period. In addition, new test materials will be developed for more effective evaluation of the speech processors in deaf humans with implanted auditory prostheses.