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Research project

Using Touch To Enhance Auditory Perception

Research groups:

Signal Processing Audio and Hearing Group
Lead researcher:

Dr Mark Fletcher
Research funder:

EPSRC
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

Improved tactile speech perception using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with formant frequency focusing

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

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55429-3

Type: article

Improved tactile speech perception using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with formant frequency focusing

Mark Fletcher, Esma Akis, Carl Verschuur & Samuel Perry, 2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55429-3

Type: conference

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