Concurrent-vowel and tone recognitions in acoustic and simulated electric hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3223-3233

  Luo, Xin ^a,b   Fu, Qian Jie ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NOISE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC HEARINGS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PROCESSING CONDITIONS; SYLLABLE RECOGNITION; TONE RECOGNITION; VOWEL RECOGNITION;

AUDITION; DIGITAL FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINESE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 65549111306     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3106534     Document Type: Article

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