Enhancing Chinese tone recognition by manipulating amplitude envelope: Implications for cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3659-3667

  Luo, Xin ^a,b   Fu, Qian Jie ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; HEARING AIDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CHINESE TONE RECOGNITION; COCHLEAR IMPLANT PATIENTS; MULTICHANNEL PROCESSING; TONE RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4944250298     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1783352     Document Type: Article

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