title: Some rehabilitative considerations for future speech-processing hearing aids.
abstract: Improvements in speech-recognition and speech-processing technology promise eventual ways of assisting the hearing impaired by automatically enhancing the audibility of critical speech segments or distinctive features. Some results of applying enhancement techniques are summarized and procedures are proposed for selecting the speech sounds requiring enhancement, the degree of amplification, and the training that hearing-impaired listeners might need.
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception