Vowel recognition via cochlear implants and noise vocoders: Effects of formant movement and duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3998-4006

  Iverson, Paul ^a   Smith, Charlotte A ^a   Evans, Bronwen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND RECORDING; VOCODERS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; ENGLISH VOWELS; NOISE VOCODERS; VOWEL RECORDING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845356933     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2372453     Document Type: Article

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