Recognition of spectrally degraded and frequency-shifted vowels in acoustic and electric hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1889-1900

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

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SPECTROSCOPY; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0344389021     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426725     Document Type: Article

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