Evaluating the function of phonetic perceptual phenomena within speech recognition: An examination of the perception of /d/-/t/ by adult cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1056-1064

  Iverson, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PHONETIC PERCEPTUAL PHENOMENA;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PHONATION; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037327304     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1531985     Document Type: Article

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