Speech recognition in noise as a function of the number of spectral channels: Comparison of acoustic hearing and cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1150-1163

  Friesen, L M ^a   Shannon, R V ^a   Baskent, D ^a   Wang, X ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; ELECTRODES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPECTRAL CHANNELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034902190     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1381538     Document Type: Article

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