Spectral subtraction-based speech enhancement for cochlear implant patients in background noise (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1001-1004

  Yang, Li Ping ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PATIENT TREATMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SINGLE-CHANNEL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; SPECTRAL FLOORING; SPECTRAL SUBSTRACTION ALGORITHMS; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 14844348846     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1852873     Document Type: Article

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