Development of a speaker discrimination test for cochlear implant users based on the Oldenburg Logatome corpus

ORL

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-20

  Mühler, Roland ^a,b   Ziese, Michael ^a   Rostalski, Dorothea ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Orthopädische Univ Klin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Speaker discrimination; Voice gender discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER IDENTITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54149118777     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000165170     Document Type: Article

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