Speech understanding performance of cochlear implant subjects using time-frequency masking-based noise reduction

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1364-1373

  Qazi, Obaid Ur Rehman ^a,b   Van Dijk, Bas ^a   Moonen, Marc ^c   Wouters, Jan ^b  

^a Research and Development   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants (CIs); phase error variance; speech processing; time frequency (TF) masking

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL PROCESSING; HEAD SHADOW EFFECT; MASK FUNCTION; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PHASE ERROR; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; TIME FREQUENCY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; MICROPHONES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHASE ERROR FILTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FREQUENCY MASKING BASED NOISE REDUCTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860387603     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2187650     Document Type: Article

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