Effect of spectral normalization on different talker speech recognition by cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2836-2847

  Liu, Chuping ^a   Galvin III, John ^b   Fu, Qian Jie ^a,b   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS (CI); NORMAL-HEARING (NH); PITCH-SHIFT TRANSFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL NORMALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ENGLAND; GEESE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 43549093521     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2897047     Document Type: Article

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