Multi-microphone adaptive noise reduction strategies for coordinated stimulation in bilateral cochlear implant devices

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3136-3144

  Kokkinakis, Kostas ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NOISE; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; NOISE SOURCE; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; SINGLE INPUT; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; WORD RECOGNITION SCORES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 77956237926     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3372727     Document Type: Article

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