Effects of Adaptation Rate and Noise Suppression on the Intelligibility of Compressed-Envelope Based Speech.

Temporal envelope is the primary acoustic cue used in most cochlear implant (CI) speech processors to elicit speech perception for patients fitted with CI devices. Envelope compression narrows down envelope dynamic range and accordingly degrades speech understanding abilities of CI users, especially...

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Main Authors: Ying-Hui Lai, Yu Tsao, Fei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4510405?pdf=render