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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Kazue Fusakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Gempo Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazue Fusakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Gempo Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A hearing aid for improving diminished hearing caused by reduced temporal resolution includes: a speech input unit which receives a speech signal from outside; a speech analysis unit which detects a sound segment and a segment acoustically regarded as soundless from the speech signal received by the speech input unit and detects a consonant segment and a vowel segment within the detected sound segment; and a signal processing unit which temporally increments the consonant segment detected by the speech analysis unit and temporally decrements at least one of the vowel segment and the segment acoustically regarded as soundless detected by the speech analysis unit.