Towards objective measures of speech intelligibility for Cochlear Implant users in reverberant environments

2012 11th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications, ISSPA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 666-671

  Cosentino, Stefano ^a   Marquardt, Torsten ^a   McAlpine, David ^a   Falk, Tiago H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cochlear Implants; Objective Measures; Reverberation; Speech Intelligibility; Vocoders

Indexed keywords

AUDIO QUALITY; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LISTENING TESTS; NOISE-EXCITED VOCODERS; NON-INTRUSIVE; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OBJECTIVE METRICS; REFERENCE SIGNALS; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION TIME;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; VOCODERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84868522608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPA.2012.6310637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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