| Electric-stimulus rate encoding algorithm of Mandarin tonal information in cochlear implant |
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| 引用本文： | GUAN Tian,GONG Qin,YE Datian. Electric-stimulus rate encoding algorithm of Mandarin tonal information in cochlear implant[J]. 自然科学进展(英文版), 2006, 16(12): 1315-1321. DOI: 10.1080/10020070612330147 |
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| 作者姓名： | GUAN Tian GONG Qin YE Datian |
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| 作者单位： | 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 2. Research Center of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China |
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| 摘 要： | The modern multi-channel cochlear implants usually extract and encode the temporal envelope cues. This kind of algorithms can hardly satisfy the users who speak tonal languages, such as Mandarin. Many studies have tried to enhance the recognition ability of Mandarin through encoding tonal information and made suggestions to frequency-modulate the fixed pulse-rate carrier with the extracted tonal information based on the rate-pitch theory in electric hearing. However, how to encode and deliver the tonal information such as F0 by changing electric-stimulus rate has not got further study in clinical electric-stimulus mode. The present paper focuses on this matter by piecewise calculating the appreciable electric-stimulus rates. Then an electric-stimulus encoding algorithm of Mandarin tone is brought forward and testified through acoustic simulations. Such conclusion can be drawn that this algorithm of electric-stimulus rate could convey tonal information well and help to enhance the Mandarin speech recognition ability.
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| 关 键 词： | cochlear implant tone fundamental frequency electric-stimulus rate. |
Electric-stimulus rate encoding algorithm of Mandarin tonal information in cochlear implant |
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| GUAN Tian,GONG Qin,YE Datian. Electric-stimulus rate encoding algorithm of Mandarin tonal information in cochlear implant[J]. Progress in Natural Science, 2006, 16(12): 1315-1321. DOI: 10.1080/10020070612330147 |
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| Authors: | GUAN Tian GONG Qin YE Datian |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2. Research Center of Biomedical Engineering,Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China |
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| Abstract: | The modern multi-channel cochlear implants usually extract and encode the temporal envelope cues. This kind of algorithms can hardly satisfy the users who speak tonal languages, such as Mandarin. Many studies have tried to enhance the recognition ability of Mandarin through encoding tonal information and made suggestions to frequency-modulate the fixed pulse-rate carrier with the extracted tonal information based on the rate-pitch theory in electric hearing. However, how to encode and deliver the tonal information such as F0 by changing electric-stimulus rate has not got further study in clinical electric-stimulus mode. The present paper focuses on this matter by piecewise calculating the appreciable electric-stimulus rates. Then an electric-stimulus encoding algorithm of Mandarin tone is brought forward and testified through acoustic simulations. Such conclusion can be drawn that this algorithm of electric-stimulus rate could convey tonal information well and help to enhance the Mandarin speech recognition ability. |
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| Keywords: | cochlear implant tone fundamental frequency electric-stimulus rate |
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