Effects of noise and spectral resolution on vowel and consonant recognition: acoustic and electric hearing

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 104; no. 6; p. 3586
• Main Authors: Fu, Q J, Shannon, R V, Wang, X
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.1998
• Subjects: Adult; Auditory Threshold; Cochlear Implantation - methods; Female; Hearing - physiology; Hearing Disorders - therapy; Humans; Male; Noise - adverse effects; Phonetics; Speech Acoustics; Speech Perception - physiology

Current multichannel cochlear implant devices provide high levels of speech performance in quiet. However, performance deteriorates rapidly with increasing levels of background noise. The goal of this study was to investigate whether the noise susceptibility of cochlear implant users is primarily du...