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Research project

Feeling the beat – Haptic enhancement of music perception in cochlear implant users

Research groups:

Signal Processing Audio and Hearing Group
Lead researcher:

Dr Mark Fletcher
Status:

Active

Staff

Lead researcher

Doctor Mark Fletcher

Dr Mark Fletcher

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

Cochlear implants
Haptics
Virtual acoustics

Connect with Mark

Email: M.D.Fletcher@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Signal Processing Audio and Hearing Group

Our aims are to understand and develop technological innovation in complex signaling and human acoustics.

Research outputs

Improved tactile speech perception and noise robustness using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with amplitude envelope expansion

Mark D. Fletcher, Esma Akis, Carl A. Verschuur & Samuel W. Perry, 2024, Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15029

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65510-6

Type: article

Improved tactile speech robustness to background noise with a dual-path recurrent neural network noise-reduction method

Mark D. Fletcher, Samuel W. Perry, Iordanis Thoidis, Carl A. Verschuur & Tobias Goehring, 2024, Scientific Reports, 14(1)

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-57312-7

Type: article

Improving speech perception for hearing-impaired listeners using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with multiple frequency channels

Mark Fletcher, Carl A. Verschuur & Samuel W. Perry, 2023, Scientific Reports, 13(1)

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40509-7

Type: article

Listen with your wrists

Mark Fletcher, 2021, Frontiers for Young Minds, 9

DOI: 10.3389/frym.2021.678405

Type: article

Using vibration on the wrists to enhance cochlear implant listening

Mark Fletcher, 2021

Type: conference