Minimum spectral contrast needed for vowel identification by normal hearing and cochlear implant listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3 I, 2001, Pages 1619-1627

  Loizou, P C ^a   Poroy, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

VOWELS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034844313     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1388004     Document Type: Article

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