We design biologically-inspired speech processors based on our computational models of the human ear. We aim to apply these speech processors to improve cochlear-implant speech processors (in collaboration with Blake Wilson), speaker identification systems (in collaboration with the Crime Scene Investigation department of the Spanish Guardia Civil), and speech recognition systems.
Selected publications:
Wilson BS, Schatzer R, Lopez-Poveda EA, Sun X, Lawson DT, Wolford RD. (2005). «Two new directions in speech processor design for cochlear implants,» Ear & Hearing, 26, 73S-81S.
Wilson BS, Schatzer R, Lopez-Poveda EA. (2006). «Possibilities for a closer mimicking of normal auditory functions with cochlear implants,» in Cochlear Implants, 2nd Edition, edited by SB Waltzman and JT Roland, Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, pp. 48-56.
Wilson BS, Lopez-Poveda EA, Schatzer R. (2010).»Use of auditory models in developing coding strategies for cochlear implants,» in: Meddis, Lopez-Poveda, Popper, Fay (eds.) Computer Models of the Auditory System. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Springer, vol. 35, New York, chapter 9.
Auditory Computation & Psychoacoustics 