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

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2014-04-02Author
Kokkinakis, Kostas
Cox, Casey
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America
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Article
Article Version
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 9 m/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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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4871583.
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Kokkinakis, Kostas & Cox, Casey. "Reducing the impact of wind noise on cochlear implant processors with two microphones." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 135, EL219 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4871583.
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