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Wireless Transmission of Sound between Speech Processor and Transmitter for Cochlear Implant

Ramesh K 1, Aziz Makandar 1, Pavan Nayak 2
1. Department of PG studies in Computer Science, Karnataka State Women’s University Vijayapura Karnataka, India
2. Government First Grade College Shirsi Karnataka, India

Abstract—The latest cochlear Implant Naida CI Q70 with advanced wireless feature has got its speech processor and transmitter in the form of reliable wire communication architecture. This architecture creates problem for deaf in terms of maintenance and cost for its complex structure. Hence we propose a wireless architecture for speech processor to communicate with transmitter. A band pass digital auditory filter is introduced in transmitter circuit which separates the frequency from overlapping and reduces unwanted noise. The whole optimized communication architecture design is to reduce the noise and gives a convenient structure for deaf to provide a reliable and improved hearing.

 
Index Terms—Cochlear implant (C.I), digital auditory filter Transmitter, speech processor, finite impulse response
filter(FIR), Signal to noise ratio (SNR)
 
Cite: Ramesh K and Aziz Makandar, "Wireless Transmission of Sound between Speech Processor and Transmitter for Cochlear Implant," Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 63-66, February, 2017. doi: 10.12720/jait.8.1.63-66