Patent ID: 8374877
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G10L,H04R

Abstract:
1. A hearing aid comprising: a speech input unit configured to receive a speech signal from outside; a speech analysis unit configured to detect a sound segment and a segment acoustically regarded as soundless from the speech signal received by said speech input unit, and to detect a consonant segment and a vowel segment within the detected sound segment; a signal processing unit configured to temporally increment the consonant segment detected by said speech analysis unit and to temporally decrement at least one of the vowel segment and the segment acoustically regarded as soundless detected by said speech analysis unit; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust an amount of time by which the consonant segment is to be incremented, based on temporal resolution information that indicates auditory temporal resolution of a user of said hearing aid, wherein said signal processing unit is configured to increment, by the amount of time adjusted by said adjustment unit, the consonant segment detected by said speech analysis unit.