FIR SYNTHESIS OF THE HUMAN HEARING MECHANISM RESPONSE

The paper deals with the synthesis of a model for the nonlinear human hearing mechanism response. The non-uniform frequency sampling is combined with the interpolation methods to design a FIR filter to approximate the psychophysical data (audiogram). The analysis of the designed filters is achieved in LabVIEW. To evaluate the FIR synthesis the magnitude characteristic and the impulse response for different interpolation methods are compared.

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