Effect of bandwidth extension to telephone speech recognition in cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Chuping ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^a,b   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; BANDWIDTH EXTENSION; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; NARROW BANDS; SENTENCE RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TELEPHONE SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSMISSION RANGES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 59849097404     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3062145     Document Type: Article

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