Modeling the effect of channel number and interaction on consonant recognition in a cochlear implant peak-picking strategy

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1723-1736

  Verschuur, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELS; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEMS; BACKGROUND NOISE; CHANNEL INTERACTIONS; CHANNEL NUMBERS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CONSONANT RECOGNITION; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FEATURE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION LOSS; NORMAL HEARINGS; PERFORMANCE ERRORS; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS;

ACOUSTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 62249103004     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3075554     Document Type: Article

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