Consonant burst enhancement: a possible means to improve intelligibility for the hard of hearing.
The possibility of using a circuit to amplify selectively the burst of a stop consonant is investigated. It is shown that such a circuit used in the speech channel of an amplifying system can improve the discrimination between stop consonants. Such a system could be of value in assisting the hard of hearing.
University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Medicine, ENT Department, Tygerberg, South Africa.
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D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception