Computer applications in audiology and rehabilitation of the hearing impaired.

Computers are playing an ever-increasing role in audiology. The potential applications of computers in audiology, speech pathology, and aural rehabilitation are described. These include the use of computers in adaptive testing, speech analysis and synthesis, automatic extraction of speech features, supplemental speechreading aids, analysis and synthesis of speechreading cues, language analysis, and computer simulation of the effect of specific speech training strategies.