Speech recognition in normal hearing and sensorineural hearing loss as a function of the number of spectral channels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2908-2925

  Başkent, Deniz ^a,b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Starkey Hearing Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOCODERS;

AUDIBILITY; CONSONANT RECOGNITION; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750325606     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354017     Document Type: Article

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