Speech recognition with altered spectral distribution of envelope cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2467-2476

  Shannon, Robert V ^a   Zeng, Fan Gang ^a   Wygonski, John ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031687487     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423774     Document Type: Article

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