Speech intelligibility as a function of the number of channels of stimulation for signal processors using sine-wave and noise-band outputs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2403-2411

  Dorman, Michael F ^a,b   Loizou, Philipos C ^c   Rainey, Dawne ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHANNEL OF STIMULATION; CONSONANTS; NOISE BAND OUTPUTS; SENTENCES; SIGNAL PROCESSORS; SINE WAVE OUTPUT; VOWELS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031259858     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419603     Document Type: Article

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