Factors affecting masking release in cochlear-implant vocoded speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 338-346

  Li, Ning ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LANDMARKS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; STEADY NOISE; TEMPORAL GAPS;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149098450     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3133702     Document Type: Article

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