Model for human speech recognition may help provide a good prediction for hearing-impaired listeners.

‘Model for human speech recognition may help provide a good prediction for hearing-impaired listeners.’

"The novelty of our model is that it provides good predictions for hearing-impaired listeners for noise types with very different complexity and shows both low errors and high correlations with the measured data. We were most surprised that the predictions worked well for all noise types. We expected the model to have problems when using a single competing talker. However, that was not the case," says author Jana Roßbach, from Carl Von Ossietzky University. 




The present model may thereby be used to predict speech intelligibility, listening effort, or speech quality as these topics are very related.
Source-Medindia