imuli; field tests with several patients will then be run. The computer model will be parameterized, so that the system can be fine-tuned and will be adaptable to the patients needs. The system's performance will be monitored by an automatic speech recognizer that delivers a quality measure of speech intelligibility.
These tests, which are done at the Hearing Research Center in Hannover, Germany, serve to evaluate the system and to compare its performance in terms of speech intelligibility to existing speech processors.
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