Visualization of speech and audio for hearing impaired persons.

Speech and sounds are important sources of information in our everyday lives for communication with our environment, be it interacting with fellow humans or directing our attention to technical devices with sound signals. For hearing impaired persons this acoustic information must be supplemented or...

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Published in:Technology & Disability Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 97 - 108
Main Authors: Beskow J, Engwall O, Granström B, Nordqvist P, Wik P
Format: pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 2008
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          Beskow J
          Engwall O
          Granström B
          Nordqvist P
          Wik P
        affil: Centre for Speech Technology, School of Computer Science and Communication, Kungliga Tekniska H ogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
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          Communication Aids for Persons with Disabilities
          Rehabilitation of Persons with Hearing Loss
          Speech Intelligibility
          Audiovisuals
          Home Environment
          Lipreading
          Sound Classification
          Speech Perception
          User-Computer Interface
      ab: Speech and sounds are important sources of information in our everyday lives for communication with our environment, be it interacting with fellow humans or directing our attention to technical devices with sound signals. For hearing impaired persons this acoustic information must be supplemented or even replaced by cues using other senses. We believe that the most natural modality to use is the visual, since speech is fundamentally audiovisual and these two modalities are complementary. We are hence exploring how different visualization methods for speech and audio signals may support hearing impaired persons. The goal in this line of research is to allow the growing number of hearing impaired persons, children as well as the middle-aged and elderly, equal participation in communication. A number of visualization techniques are proposed and exemplified with applications for hearing impaired persons.
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