Encoding frequency modulation to improve cochlear implant performance in noise

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-73

  Nie, Kaibao ^a,b,c,d   Stickney, Ginger ^a,e,f   Zeng, Fan Gang ^{a,g,h,i,j,k,l,m}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

ⁱ SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k Auditory Perception Laboratory   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Cochlear implant; Fine structure; Frequency modulation; Signal processing; Speech recognition; Temporal envelope

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION ENCODING; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLANT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 11244283172     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.839799     Document Type: Article

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