Category: FFT

Hearing Aid Delay

Wayne Staab 1 Comment Auditory confusion / Bandwidth / digital hearing aids / Digital Signal Processing / DSP / Earmold / Echo / FFT / Group delay / Hearing / Hearing aid / Hearing aid wearer / Hearing aids / Jerry Agnew / Venting

Hearing Aid Delay Between Direct and Processed Sound    Last week’s post provided information about the delay between the direct and processed sound in digital hearing aids – hearing aid delay. All hearing aids, but especially digital, have processing delays and it has been speculated that these delays may potentially interfere with amplified sound quality of speech.…

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Animal Vocalization Analysis: the gPLP

Wayne Staab Leave a comment Acoustics / Audiology / Beluga whale / cepstral / Elephant / Feature extraction / FFT / Frequency mapping / Frequency warping / Fundamental Frequency / gPLP / lion / Nonlinear mapping / rumbles / Spectrum analysis

Prologue: Every now and then one has to release the nerd inside them.  This blog is one of those times.  However,   this venture turned out worse than I had imagined.  So, it might be helpful if I provided some background as to why I delved into this topic. As some of you might have noticed,…

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