Estimation of vowel recognition with cochlear implant simulations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-81

  Liu, Chuping ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant simulation; Estimation; Vowel recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI) DEVICE; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRUM COEFFICIENTS (MFCC); SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; VOWEL RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; VOWEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33846347925     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.883800     Document Type: Article

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