Title
Objective speech intelligibility measurement for cochlear implant users in complex listening environments
Abstract
Objective intelligibility measurement allows for reliable, low-cost, and repeatable assessment of innovative speech processing technologies, thus dispensing costly and time-consuming subjective tests. To date, existing objective measures have focused on normal hearing model, and limited use has been found for restorative hearing instruments such as cochlear implants (CIs). In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of five existing objective measures, as well as proposed two refinements to one particular measure to better emulate CI hearing, under complex listening conditions involving noise-only, reverberation-only, and noise-plus-reverberation. Performance is assessed against subjectively rated data. Experimental results show that the proposed CI-inspired objective measures outperformed all existing measures; gains by as much as 22% could be achieved in rank correlation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.specom.2013.04.001
Speech Communication
Keywords
DocType
Volume
noise,intelligibility,reverberation
Journal
55
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7-8
0167-6393
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.90
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Felipe Santos1708.21
Stefano Cosentino2162.71
Oldooz Hazrati3312.90
Philipos C. Loizou499171.00
Tiago H. Falk552565.20