Effects of in-the-ear microphone directionality on sound direction identification

被引:12
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作者
Chung, King [1 ]
Neuman, Arlene C. [2 ]
Higgins, Michael [2 ]
机构
[1] Lexington Ctr Deaf, Flushing, NY 11370 USA
[2] CUNY, Grad Ctr, New York, NY 10036 USA
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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA | 2008年 / 123卷 / 04期
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10.1121/1.2883744
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O42 [声学];
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070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
As advanced signal processing algorithms have been proposed to enhance hearing protective device (HPD) performance, it is important to determine how directional microphones might affect the localization ability of users and whether they might cause safety hazards. The effect of in-the-ear microphone directivity was assessed by measuring sound source identification of speech in the horizontal plane. Recordings of speech in quiet and in noise were made with Knowles Electronic Manikin for Acoustic Research wearing bilateral in-the-ear hearing aids with microphones having adjustable directivity (omnidirectional, cardioid, hypercardioid, supercardioid). Signals were generated from 16 locations in a circular array. Sound direction identification performance of eight normal hearing listeners and eight hearing-impaired listeners revealed that directional microphones did not degrade localization performance and actually reduced the front-back and lateral localization errors made when listening through omnidirectional microphones. The summed rms speech level for the signals entering the two ears appear to serve as a cue for making front-back discriminations when using directional microphones in the experimental setting. The results of this study show that the use of matched directional microphones when worn bilaterally do not have a negative effect on the ability to localize speech in the horizontal plane and may thus be useful in HPD design. (C) 2008 Acoustical Society of America.
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页码:2264 / 2275
页数:12
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