Real-time auditory models enable speech recognition, sound reproduction, and hearing aids
Evidence
An even stronger motivation for modelling hearing computationally originates from the engineering point of view, wherein a functional model enables emulating the functionality of hearing in numerous practical applications, especially if the model runs in real time. Such applications include, for example, speech recognition, sound reproduction, spatial audio techniques, hearing aids, and cochlear implants. Mimicking brain functions in the computational domain is also very educating and an inspiring topic: the human brain is a good engineering solution, and reverse engineering it is a good exercise in signal processing. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1564
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the reader’s purpose of understanding applications of acoustic communication: connects auditory modelling to engineering applications like hearing aids, spatial audio, and cochlear implants. — connects to: Acoustics, perception, and signal processing underpin sound-technology R&D; Digital audio growth made understanding human audition essential; Computational auditory models serve knowledge, audio-quality measurement, and diagnostics — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 821 (+8 more)
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1564
Broader Connections
- Hearing-modeling spectrograms use an ERB frequency axis from modeled auditory filters.
#expands(0.82) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1501 - Computational simulation can generate testable hypotheses about auditory physiology
#expands(0.75) - Auditory-model difference measures predict audible quality degradation
#expands(0.75) - Model-based impairment simulation isolates specific cochlear processing components
#expands(0.72) - A filter-bank simulator lets normal-hearing listeners experience controlled hearing-impaired states
#exemplifies(0.72) - A hearing impairment simulator can isolate cochlear compression loss in normal-hearing listeners
#exemplifies(0.72) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4043 - Hearing aid algorithms distort auditory cues yet still improve speech understanding
#complicates(0.70) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1777 - Sonification maps measured data onto audible changes exploiting auditory perception
#expands(0.70) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2690