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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2006
Shigeyoshi Kitazawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shinya Kiriyama, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Erdenebat Dashtseren, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Satoshi Iwasaki, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shigeyoshi Kitazawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shinya Kiriyama, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Erdenebat Dashtseren, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Satoshi Iwasaki, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hamamatsu Foundation for Science and Technology Promotion, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Abstract
A method for speech conversion in an artificial auris interna and an artificial auris interna can be capable of providing speech near to natural speech to a person using the artificial auris interna and reproducing natural fluctuation at random with a value near to the periodicity unique to each channel. Within a signal frame, speech information can be distinguished according to each frequency band by using band pass filters. Channel information on the corresponding frequency band can be added to the speech information. For each channel, speech information having a large signal level within one channel is left so that the number of stimulus pulses can be adjusted to be a frequency allowed for one channel. From all the speech information left for each channel, the speech information having a large signal level is left so that the number of stimulus pulses is adjusted to be a frequency allowed for the entire channel. The remaining speech information is transmitted to an electrode corresponding to the channel, thereby generating a stimulus pulse.