Relationship between perception of spectral ripple and speech recognition in cochlear implant and vocoder listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 982-991

  Litvak, Leonid M ^a   Spahr, Anthony J ^b   Saoji, Aniket A ^a   Fridman, Gene Y ^c  

^a ADVANCED BIONICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BROAD ACTIVATION PATTERNS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; MULTI-BAND VOCODER; SPECTRAL MODULATION THRESHOLD (SMT);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34547645413     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2749413     Document Type: Article

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