Contribution of frequency modulation to speech recognition in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2412-2420

  Stickney, Ginger S ^a   Nie, Kaibao ^a   Zeng, Fan Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PATIENT MONITORING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; HIGH-FREQUENCY BANDS;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVALUATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 26844544281     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2031967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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