RESEARCH ARTICLE


Performances Study of a New Speech Coding Strategy with Reduced Channels for Cochlear Implants



Bouafif Lamia*, Ouni Kais, Ellouze Noureddine
Signal Processing Laboratory, ENIT, BP 37 Tunis Belvedère, Tunisia


© 2009 Lamia et al.

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Signal Processing Laboratory, ENIT, BP 37 Tunis Belvedère, Tunisia; E-mail: b2lamia@yahoo.fr


Abstract

A new cochlear implant speech coding strategy for representing acoustic information with reduced number of channels will be developed. After a brief description of the actual cochlear implant stimulation methods, the authors present a processing algorithm describing the new adaptive spectral analysis strategy (ASAS-GC). This technique is based on a Gammachirp perception model and an optimal stimulation rate selection. The excited electrodes signals and recognition performances are presented and compared with those of others strategies.