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引用第155楼林照跃于2012-06-07 16:09发表的  :
Extended Bandwidth and Speech Perception
Pittman1 noted that, upon high school graduation, the average graduate commands some 60,000 words. Unfortunately, children with hearing impairment develop vocabulary in a delayed fashion, apparently related to their degree of hearing loss. Pittman evaluated 50 children between 8 and 10 years of age. A total of 36 of the children had normal hearing and 14 had moderate-to-severe hearing loss. Her study compared word-learning rates when children were exposed to restricted (4 kHz) versus extended high-frequency (9 kHz) bandwidths. Regardless of hearing status, Pittman found all children learned words significantly faster while using extended high-frequency bandwidths. The research noted that restricted hearing aid bandwidths may provide an ambiguous signal; children may require more exposures to the primary signal to perceive the subtle acoustic elements required for word-learning.
Stelmachowicz et al4 in 2001 investigated stimulus bandwidth as it relates to the perception of the phoneme /s/ across 80 subjects, including normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects. The speech stimuli were created by male, female, and child talkers. Speech stimuli were low-pass filtered at five settings between 2 kHz and 9 kHz. Although subjects' perceptual performance for the male speaker was maximal at a bandwidth of 5 kHz, mean performance for the female speaker improved until the widest bandwidth (9 kHz) was reached. Likewise, for the child speaker, the subjects' performance increased steadily as the bandwidth was increased. The authors stated aided audibility for high-frequency sounds is a problem for children with mild-to-moderate hearing loss, as well as for children with severe-to-profound hearing loss.
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请看作者,别的不用看了。
注意一下,这篇文章的研究方法,是比较频宽5000Hz和10000Hz的区别,他怎么不选取7000-8000Hz与10000Hz的对比呢?
要知道,那么小功率的机器(达到10000Hz频宽的助听器都是功率不大的),绝大多数厂家都能做到7000-8000Hz。 |
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