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Kates, James Scholar In Residence

Positions

Scholar In Residence, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS)

Research Areas

Research

research overview

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

Publications

selected publications

conference proceeding
- Improving Auditory Externalization for Hearing-Aid Remote Microphones. Conference record / Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers. 1895-1899. 2017
- Envelope modulation and intelligibility for speech in a simple model of reverberation 2016
- Improving externalization in remote microphone systems 2016
- Quantitative benchmarks for the ; evaluation of signal processing in commercial hearing devices. 2016
- Sensitivity of the Speech Intelligibility Index to the Assumed Dynamic Range (In-Ki Jin, James M. Kates, Kyung-Ju Lee and Kathryn H. Are-hart) 2016
- Investigation of the relative perceptual importance of temporal envelope and temporal fine structure between tonal and non-tonal languages. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. 495-498. 2014
- 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
- A time-frequency modulation model of speech quality. 61-+. 2007
- A model of speech intelligibility and quality in hearing aids. 53-56. 2005
journal article
- The Type of Noise Influences Quality Ratings for Noisy Speech in Hearing Aid Users. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 4300-4313. 2020
- Adding air absorption to simulated room acoustic models. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. EL408-EL413. 2020
- The Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI) Version 2. Speech Communication. 2020
- Quantifying the Range of Signal Modification in Clinically Fit Hearing Aids. Ear and Hearing. 433-441. 2020
- Integrating a remote microphone with hearing-aid processing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 3551-3566. 2019
- Using Objective Metrics to Measure Hearing Aid Performance. Ear and Hearing. 1165-1175. 2018
- Externalization of remote microphone signals using a structural binaural model of the head and pinna. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2666-2677. 2018
- Author's Rebuttal to Smits et al. (2018), "Comment on 'Sensitivity of the Speech Intelligibility Index to the Assumed Dynamic Range' by Jin et al. (2017)". Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 189-190. 2018
- Sensitivity of the Speech Intelligibility Index to the Assumed Dynamic Range. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 1674-1680. 2017
- Using envelope modulation to explain speech intelligibility in the presence of a single reflection. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. EL482-EL487. 2017
- Does Language Matter When Using a Graphical Method for Calculating the Speech Intelligibility Index?. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 119-126. 2017
- The Hearing-Aid Audio Quality Index (HAAQI). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. 354-365. 2016
- Comparing the information conveyed by envelope modulation for speech intelligibility, speech quality, and music quality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2470-2482. 2015
- Relationship Among Signal Fidelity, Hearing Loss, and Working Memory for Digital Noise Suppression. Ear and Hearing. 505-516. 2015
- Derivations of the band-importance function: A cross-procedure comparison (L). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 938-941. 2015
- Working memory and intelligibility of hearing-aid processed speech. Frontiers in Psychology. 2015
- The Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI). Speech Communication. 75-93. 2014
- Dynamic Range for Speech Materials in Korean, English, and Mandarin: A Cross-Language Comparison. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 2024-2030. 2014
- Music Preferences With Hearing Aids: Effects of Signal Properties, Compression Settings, and Listener Characteristics. Ear and Hearing. E170-E184. 2014
- The Hearing-Aid Speech Quality Index (HASQI) Version 2. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 99-117. 2014
- The effects of noise vocoding on speech quality perception. Hearing Research. 75-83. 2014
- Integrating cognitive and peripheral factors in predicting hearing-aid processing effectiveness. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 4458-4469. 2013
- Exploring the Limits of Frequency Lowering. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 1349-1363. 2013
- Working Memory, Age, and Hearing Loss: Susceptibility to Hearing Aid Distortion. Ear and Hearing. 251-260. 2013
- The effect of noise envelope modulation on quality judgments of noisy speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. EL277-EL283. 2012
- Quality and loudness judgments for music subjected to compression limiting. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1177-1188. 2012
- Determining Perceived Sound Quality in a Simulated Hearing Aid Using the International Speech Test Signal. Ear and Hearing. 533-535. 2011
- Effects of noise, nonlinear processing, and linear filtering on perceived music quality. International Journal of Audiology. 177-190. 2011
- Effects of Noise, Nonlinear Processing, and Linear Filtering on Perceived Speech Quality. Ear and Hearing. 420-436. 2010
- The Hearing-Aid Speech Quality Index (HASQI). Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 363-381. 2010
- The Acoustic and Peceptual Effects of Series and Parallel Processing. Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2009
- Effects of noise and distortion on speech quality judgments in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1150-1164. 2007
- Coherence and the speech intelligibility index. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2224-2237. 2005
- Multichannel dynamic-range compression using digital frequency warping. Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 3003-3014. 2005

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