Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference (대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집)
- Volume 1997 Issue 11
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- Pages.79-82
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- 1997
A Digital Hearing Aid with 8-band Curvilinear Loudness Fitting
8대역 비선형 라우드니스 교정 디지털 보청기
- Park, Y.C. (Biomedical Engineering Center, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute) ;
- Kim, D.W. (Biomedical Engineering Center, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute) ;
- Kim, W.K. (Biomedical Engineering Center, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute) ;
- Park, S.I. (Biomedical Engineering Center, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute)
- 박영철 (삼성생명과학연구소 임상의공학센터) ;
- 김동욱 (삼성생명과학연구소 임상의공학센터) ;
- 김원기 (삼성생명과학연구소 임상의공학센터) ;
- 박상일 (삼성생명과학연구소 임상의공학센터)
- Published : 1997.11.28
Abstract
In this paper, a body-worn type digital hearing aid (DHA) based on a dedicated DSP chip is developed. A fitting software running on a PC supported by the Win95 OS is also developed. The fitting protocol is based on the NAL-R procedure applied to eight frequency bands, but it is designed to support a curvilinear fitting to cope with the nonlinear perception of hearing-impaired listeners. Preliminary subjective tests regarding the speech intelligibility and perceived quality revealed that the new DHA could be of benefit to hearing aid users.
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