Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Multicentric field evaluation of a new speech coding strategy for cochlear implants

N Dillier1, R D Battmer, W H Döring

  • 1ENT Department, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland.

Audiology : Official Organ of the International Society of Audiology
|May 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Characterizing renal involvement in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome in a zebrafish model.

Scientific reports·2019
Same author

Circulating factors cause proteinuria in parabiotic zebrafish.

Kidney international·2019
Same author

[Minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis].

Der Internist·2019
Same author

[Contribution to the discussion surrounding the Freiburg speech test].

HNO·2014
Same author

Basic standards of CI care in Europe and beyond.

Cochlear implants international·2011
Same author

[Audiologic rehabilitation of patients with cochlear implants].

HNO·2009

The new spectral peak (SPEAK) strategy significantly improved speech perception for cochlear implant users compared to the multipeak (MPEAK) strategy. Improvements were most notable in sentence recognition, especially in noisy environments.

Area of Science:

  • Audiology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

  • Cochlear implants are vital for hearing restoration.
  • Speech coding strategies significantly impact speech perception.
  • Evaluating new strategies like SPEAK is crucial for optimizing implant performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the speech perception abilities of Nucleus 22 Channel Cochlear Implant users with the novel spectral peak (SPEAK) strategy.
  • To compare the SPEAK strategy's performance against the established multipeak (MPEAK) strategy.

Main Methods:

  • A multicentric study involving 20 German-speaking cochlear implant recipients across 4 European centers.
  • An ABAB experimental design was used to compare SPEAK against MPEAK.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Subjects underwent various auditory perceptual tasks, including monosyllable word recognition and sentence tests under noisy conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • Significant differences in group mean scores were observed between the SPEAK and MPEAK strategies for most speech recognition subtests.
    • The largest improvements with SPEAK were found in sentence recognition tasks, particularly in noisy environments.
    • Only participants with open-set monosyllable word recognition in the reference condition were included.

    Conclusions:

    • The spectral peak (SPEAK) speech coding strategy offers significant advantages over the multipeak (MPEAK) strategy for Nucleus 22 Channel Cochlear Implant users.
    • SPEAK demonstrates enhanced performance in challenging listening conditions, such as understanding sentences in noise.
    • This study supports the clinical adoption of SPEAK for improved auditory rehabilitation outcomes.