Talker intelligibility differences in cochlear implant listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Green, Tim ^a   Katiri, Sotira ^a   Faulkner, Andrew ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; HEARING AIDS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34249878203     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2720938     Document Type: Article

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