A Breakthrough for Treating Hearing Loss
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Eric Healy, professor of speech and hearing science and director of Ohio State’s Speech Psychoacoustics Laboratory, and DeLiang Wang, professor of computer science and engineering, have provided the first demonstration of a processing algorithm capable of improving speech understanding in noise for hearing-impaired listeners.
"It's an important problem because poor speech understanding in background noise is the number one complaint of hearing-impaired listeners," said Healy, the study's lead author. "People with hearing loss are simply not good at pulling speech from background noise—because this algorithm does that job for them, their limitations are rendered moot."
http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/a-breakthrough-for-treating-hearing-loss
My name is S. Bartholemieux Andrews. I am 49, dysphonic (since 1/2009), and wanting to be studied. My cerebellum shrank (I have the CT Scans and MRI's on CD), hence the dysphonia. I am disabled and in a wheelchair. The cause is still unknown.
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you Andrews. Where do you live? Have you tried looking into studies that are being conducted by your nearby hospitals? I know here in Chicago we have two big hospitals (RUSH and Northwestern) and both have a plethora of year round studies and patient participation studies. Also, do you know how common your condition is?I know you said that the cause is unknown but maybe the symptoms are common in other conditions. If there are even small support groups (on a correlating condition) you can get more information and possible leads.
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