Speech intelligibility in cochlear implant simulations: Effects of carrier type, interfering noise, and subject experience

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2376-2388

  Whitmal III, Nathaniel A ^a   Poissant, Sarah F ^a   Freyman, Richard L ^a   Helfer, Karen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCODERS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; INTRINSIC TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS; NOISE BANDS; NOISE CARRIERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODULATION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848871245     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2773993     Document Type: Article

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