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Cochlear implant speech intelligibility outcomes with structured and unstructured binary mask errors.

Abigail A Kressner¹, Adam Westermann¹, Jörg M Buchholz¹

¹National Acoustic Laboratories, Australian Hearing, 16 University Avenue, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia.

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|March 4, 2016

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Errors in estimated ideal binary masks (IBMs) impact speech intelligibility for cochlear implant (CI) recipients. Mask error structure significantly affects tolerance, with CI users generally less tolerant than normal-hearing listeners.

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Area of Science:

Auditory Neuroscience
Signal Processing
Speech Perception

Background:

Ideal binary masks (IBMs) enhance speech intelligibility for cochlear implant (CI) users.
Estimated masks in real-world scenarios contain errors, affecting performance.
Previous studies examined mask error effects in normal-hearing (NH) listeners, but not CI recipients.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess the impact of structured and unstructured binary mask errors on speech intelligibility in CI recipients.
To compare the tolerance of CI recipients to mask errors with that of NH listeners.
To investigate how error clustering and type influence tolerance.

Main Methods:

Systematic generation of binary masks with controlled errors using a statistical model.
Evaluation of speech intelligibility in CI recipients with these generated masks.
Analysis using mixed-effects models to compare CI and NH listener performance.

Main Results:

Clustering of mask errors significantly reduces tolerance.
Removing target-dominated regions is as detrimental as adding interferer-dominated regions.
CI recipients showed less tolerance to mask errors than NH listeners across most conditions.

Conclusions:

The structure of binary mask errors critically influences intelligibility and tolerance.
Error tolerance can change when different error types coexist.
Binary masking algorithm analysis must consider error structure, especially for CI users.