Effects of noise and spectral resolution on vowel and consonant recognition: Acoustic and electric hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3586-3596

  Fu, Qian Jie ^a   Shannon, Robert V ^a   Wang, Xiaosong ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONSONANT; HEARING; HUMAN; IMPLANT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032414754     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423941     Document Type: Article

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