Title :
Development of a radio and television receiver with function to assist hearing of elderly people
Author :
Imai, Atsushi ; Takagi, Tohru ; Takeishi, Hiroyuki
Author_Institution :
NHK Sci. & Tech. Res. Labs., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Elderly people often find that the speech of contemporary broadcasts is too fast for comfortable listening. We have developed a new radio and television receiver that enables users to reduce the speed of speech delivery while maintaining the voice pitch and quality, without overrunning the entire program time slot. Practical assessments by ordinary elderly people have confirmed its effectiveness for hearing comfort.
Keywords :
geriatrics; hearing aids; radio receivers; speech enhancement; speech intelligibility; television receivers; adaptive speech rate conversion; elderly people hearing assistance; fast broadcast speech; hearing comfort; program time slot length; radio receiver; repetitive listening function; sound level compression; speech delivery speed reduction; television receiver; voice pitch; voice quality; Aging; Auditory system; Laboratories; Radio broadcasting; Senior citizens; Speech analysis; Speech processing; TV broadcasting; TV receivers; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2005. ICCE. 2005 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8838-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2005.1429823
