Speech recognition by bilateral cochlear implant users in a cocktail-party setting

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 372-383

  Loizou, Philipos C ^a   Hu, Yi ^a   Litovsky, Ruth ^b   Yu, Gongqiang ^b   Peters, Robert ^c   Lake, Jennifer ^c   Roland, Peter ^d  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Dallas Otolaryngology Associates   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT);

AUDITION; DIGITAL FILTERS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 58649122857     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3036175     Document Type: Article

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