Effect of frequency boundary assignment on vowel recognition with the nucleus 24 ACE speech coding strategy

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 281-299

  Fourakis, Marios S ^a   Hawks, John W ^b   Holden, Laura K ^c   Skinner, Margaret W ^c   Holden, Timothy A ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Frequency boundaries; MAPs; Questionnaire; Speech tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FITTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 5044242313     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.15.4.3     Document Type: Article

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