Shifting fundamental frequency in simulated electric-acoustic listening

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1272-1279

  Brown, Christopher A ^a   Scherrer, Nicole M ^a   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; TARGET SPEECH;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956411527     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3463808     Document Type: Article

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