TY - JOUR
T1 - Speech understanding in noise by patients with cochlear implants using a monaural adaptive beamformer
AU - Dorman, Michael
AU - Natale, Sarah
AU - Spahr, Anthony
AU - Castioni, Erin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from Advanced Bionics Corporation and by the National Institute of Health Grant R01 DC 010821 to MFD. The experiment described in the Method section was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Arizona State University
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Purpose: The aim of this experiment was to compare, 8 listeners with HP CIs were taken from Loiselle, Dorman, for patients with cochlear implants (CIs), the improvement Yost, Cook, and Gifford (2016), who used the same test for speech understanding in noise provided by a monaural protocol. adaptive beamformer and for two interventions that produced Results: The use of the beamformer resulted in a bilateral input (i.e., bilateral CIs and hearing preservation 31 percentage point improvement in performance; in [HP] surgery). bilateral CIs, an 18 percentage point improvement; and Method: Speech understanding scores for sentences were in HP CIs, a 20 percentage point improvement. obtained for 10 listeners fit with a single CI. The listeners Conclusion: A monaural adaptive beamformer can produce were tested with and without beamformer activated in a an improvement in speech understanding in a complex “cocktail party” environment with spatially separated target noise environment that is equal to, or greater than, the and maskers. Data for 10 listeners with bilateral CIs and improvement produced by bilateral CIs and HP surgery.
AB - Purpose: The aim of this experiment was to compare, 8 listeners with HP CIs were taken from Loiselle, Dorman, for patients with cochlear implants (CIs), the improvement Yost, Cook, and Gifford (2016), who used the same test for speech understanding in noise provided by a monaural protocol. adaptive beamformer and for two interventions that produced Results: The use of the beamformer resulted in a bilateral input (i.e., bilateral CIs and hearing preservation 31 percentage point improvement in performance; in [HP] surgery). bilateral CIs, an 18 percentage point improvement; and Method: Speech understanding scores for sentences were in HP CIs, a 20 percentage point improvement. obtained for 10 listeners fit with a single CI. The listeners Conclusion: A monaural adaptive beamformer can produce were tested with and without beamformer activated in a an improvement in speech understanding in a complex “cocktail party” environment with spatially separated target noise environment that is equal to, or greater than, the and maskers. Data for 10 listeners with bilateral CIs and improvement produced by bilateral CIs and HP surgery.
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U2 - 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-16-0312
DO - 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-16-0312
M3 - Article
C2 - 28768324
AN - SCOPUS:85027717660
SN - 1092-4388
VL - 60
SP - 2360
EP - 2363
JO - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
JF - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
IS - 8
ER -