Effects of upper-frequency boundary and spectral warping on speech intelligibility in electrical stimulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2295-2309

  Goupell, Matthew J ^a   Laback, Bernhard ^a   Majdak, Piotr ^a   Baumgartner, Wolf Dieter ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TESTING; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FREQUENCY EXPANDED CONDITIONS; SPECTRAL LOCALIZATION; SPECTRAL WARPING; UPPER FREQUENCY BOUNDARY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41849095986     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2831738     Document Type: Article

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