The application of bionic wavelet transform to speech signal processing in cochlear implants using neural network simulations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1299-1309

  Yao, Jun ^a,b   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bionic wavelet transform; Cochlear implants; Neural networks; Speech signal processing

Indexed keywords

DEAFNESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOENGINEERING; CALCULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036845116     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.804590     Document Type: Article

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