Effects of reverberation and masking on speech intelligibility in cochlear implant simulations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1606-1615

  Poissant, Sarah F ^a   Whitmal III, Nathaniel A ^a   Freyman, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL PROCESSORS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT SIMULATIONS; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI);

AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

REVERBERATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEAFNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644637651     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2168428     Document Type: Article

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