Prof. Kates is involved in the design and evaluation of signal processing for hearing aids. The primary focus of his research is developing objective indices for predicting speech intelligibility and quality for hearing-impaired listeners using hearing aids.
keywords
signal processing for hearing aids, mathematical models of auditory perception
SNR is not enough: Noise modulation and speech quality.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
8639-8642.
2013