Effects of speaking style on speech intelligibility for Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Li, Yongxin ^a   Zhang, Guoping ^a   Kang, Hou Yong ^b   Liu, Sha ^a   Han, Deming ^a   Fu, Qian Jie ^c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; FOUR-CHANNEL; SPEAKING RATE; SPEAKING STYLES; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; WHISPERED SPEECH;

AUDITION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959437849     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3582148     Document Type: Article

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