Gender and speaker identification as a function of the number of channels in spectrally reduced speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 461-470

  Gonzalez, Julio ^a   Oliver, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; GENDER AND SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; NOISE BANDS; SINE WAVES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 22144456719     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1928892     Document Type: Article

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