Phoneme recognition by cochlear implant users as a function of signal- to-noise ratio and nonlinear amplitude mapping

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

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

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032811499     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427031     Document Type: Article

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