Influence of Voice Similarity on Talker Discrimination in Children With Normal Hearing and Children With Cochlear Implants.

The perception of voice similarity was examined in 5-year-old children with normal hearing sensitivity and in pediatric cochlear implant users, 512 years of age. Recorded sentences were manipulated to form a continuum of similar sounding voices. An adaptive procedure was then used to determine how a...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 204 - 224
Autores principales: Cleary, Miranda, Pisoni, David B., Kirk, Karen Iler
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association February 2005
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