Benefit of high-rate envelope cues in vocoder processing: Effect of number of channels and spectral region

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2272-2282

  Stone, Michael A ^a   Füllgrabe, Christian ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOCODERS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH RATES; SPECTRAL REGIONS;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949097185     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2968678     Document Type: Article

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