Speaker normalization for Chinese vowel recognition in cochlear implants

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1358-1361

  Luo, Xin ^a,b   Fu, Qian Jie ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Speaker normalization; Vowel recognition

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHINESE VOWEL RECOGNITION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FILTER BANK; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ARTICLE; CHINESE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FILTER; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TECHNIQUE; VOWEL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHINA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHONATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

EID: 21844459236     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.847530     Document Type: Article

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