Unintelligible low-frequency sound enhances simulated cochlear-implant speech recognition in noise

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2598-2601

  Chang, Janice E ^a,b   Bai, John Y ^b   Zeng, Fan Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Electro acoustic stimulation; Low frequency sound; Speech recognition; Voice pitch

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); TELEPHONE APPARATUS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; LOW-FREQUENCY SOUND; VOICE PITCH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ARTIFACTS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; REFERENCE VALUES; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845866906     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.883793     Document Type: Article

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