Exploring the role of the modulation spectrum in phoneme recognition

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 800-813

  Gallun, Frederick ^a   Souza, Pamela ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR REHABILITATIVE AUDITORY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECTRAL CORRELATION INDEX; SPEECH; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; HUMANS; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54949092576     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31817e73ef     Document Type: Article

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