Evaluation of companding-based spectral enhancement using simulated cochlear-implant processing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1709-1716

  Oxenham, Andrew J ^a,b   Simonson, Andrea M ^a   Turicchia, Lorenzo ^a   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCODERS;

AMPLITUDE COMPRESSION; COCHLEAR IMPLANT PROCESSING; FREQUENCY CHANNELS; SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; SPEECH RECEPTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34147095906     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2434757     Document Type: Article

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