Reducing the impact of wind noise on cochlear implant processors with two microphones

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2014-04-17Author
Kokkinakis, Kostas
Cox, Casey
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Acoustical Society of America
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Behind-the-ear (BTE) processors of cochlear implant (CI) devices offer little to almost no protection from wind noise in most incidence angles. To assess speech intelligibility, eight CI recipients were tested in 3 and 9m/s wind. Results indicated that speech intelligibility decreased substantially when the wind velocity, and in turn the wind sound pressure level, increased. A two-microphone wind noise suppression strategy was developed. Scores obtained with this strategy indicated substantial gains in speech intelligibility over other conventional noise reduction strategies tested.
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Klubnikin, K., Annett, C., Cherkasova, M., Shishin, M., & Fotieva, I. (2000). The sacred and the scientific: traditional ecological knowledge in siberian river conservation. Ecological Applications, 10(5), 1296–1306.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1296:TSATST]2.0.CO;2
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