Publications by authors named "Tomoko Tabuki"
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- * Researchers reviewed medical records of 30 patients who had lateral temporal bone surgery and assessed their hearing abilities post-surgery, finding significant variability in outcomes.
- * The findings suggest that improving surgical techniques for reconstructing the auditory meatus could enhance hearing preservation, while cartilage conduction hearing aids may serve as a non-invasive solution for compensating hearing loss after such surgeries.
Objective: Voice-aligned compression (VAC) is a method used in Oticon's hearing aids to provide more comfortable hearing without sacrificing speech discrimination. The complex, non-linear compression curve for the VAC strategy is designed based on the frequency profile of certain spoken Western languages. We hypothesized that hearing aids could be further customized for Japanese-speaking users by modifying the compression curve using the frequency profile of spoken Japanese.
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