Consonant discrimination of degraded speech using an efferent-inspired closed-loop cochlear model

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1052-1055

  Messing, David P ^a   Delhorne, Lorraine ^a   Bruckert, Ed ^b   Braida, Louis D ^a   Ghitza, Oded ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b SENSIMETRICS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory models; Olivocochlear efferent feedback; Speech processing; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODELS; CLOSED-LOOP; COCHLEAR MODEL; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; MEDIAL-OLIVOCOCHLEAR EFFERENTS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OLIVOCOCHLEAR EFFERENT FEEDBACK; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION;

AUDITION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867227036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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