題目：Adaptive amplifier scheme for sensor-neural hearing loss (SNHL)
主講人：賴穎暉 博士 (中央研究院資訊科技創新科技研究中心)
時間：103年11月5日(星期三13：30-15：00)
地點：三峽校區法學院大樓2F01教室
全英文演講
Abstract:
Speech is the most direct bridge of interpersonal communication. The defects of auditory function will make the received speech message blurred or blocked. Snesorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most common (about 90%) defects of auditory function in clinical, and the hearing aids and cochlear implants are now the basic platforms to provide certain compensation of hearing loss. However, market survey shows there are still some problems needed to been improved when in noisy conditions for the current hearing devices. In this presentation, I will describes two novel scheme to improve the speech intelligibility performance when speech in noisy conditions. One is adaptive wide-dynamic range compression (AWDRC) for digital hearing aids, the other is adaptive envelope compression (AEC) for cochlear implants. From the results indicated that these novel schemes will contribute to the SNHL individuals to obtain better speech intelligibility performance when in noisy communication conditions.
Biography of the speaker:
Ying-Hui Lai received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in department of industrial education from National Taiwan Normal University in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Department of Biomedical engineering from National Yang-Ming University in 2013. From January 2010 to June 2012, Dr. Lai was a research and development (R&D) at Engineering Department of Aescu technology, Taipei, Taiwan, where he engaged in research and product development in hearing aids, fitting strategy and amplification scheme of hearing aids etc. Currently, Dr. Lai is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) at Academia Sinica.
