Low-frequency speech cues and simulated electric-acoustic hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1658-1665

  Brown, Christopher A ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC HEARINGS; ACOUSTIC INFORMATIONS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATIONS; AMPLITUDE ENVELOPES; ELECTRIC HEARINGS; ELECTRIC STIMULATIONS; FOUR CHANNELS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LOW FREQUENCIES; PERCENTAGE POINTS; TARGET SPEECH;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; VOCODERS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 62249110251     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3068441     Document Type: Article

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