Lexical tone recognition with an artificial neural network

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 326-335

  Zhou, Ning ^a   Zhang, Wenle ^b   Lee, Chao Yang ^a   Xu, Li ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHINESE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40749157257     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181662c42     Document Type: Article

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