Contribution of consonant landmarks to speech recognition in simulated acoustic-electric hearing

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-267

  Chen, Fei ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949387133     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181c7db17     Document Type: Article

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