Speech Recognition Software
Speech Perception
Software
Pattern Recognition, Automated
Speech Reception Threshold Test
Audiometry, Speech
Speech Intelligibility
Ability to make speech sounds that are recognizable.
Speech Acoustics
The acoustic aspects of speech in terms of frequency, intensity, and time.
Cochlear Implants
Electronic hearing devices typically used for patients with normal outer and middle ear function, but defective inner ear function. In the COCHLEA, the hair cells (HAIR CELLS, VESTIBULAR) may be absent or damaged but there are residual nerve fibers. The device electrically stimulates the COCHLEAR NERVE to create sound sensation.
Speech Discrimination Tests
Tests of the ability to hear and understand speech as determined by scoring the number of words in a word list repeated correctly.
Hearing Aids
Wearable sound-amplifying devices that are intended to compensate for impaired hearing. These generic devices include air-conduction hearing aids and bone-conduction hearing aids. (UMDNS, 1999)
Perceptual Masking
Phonetics
The science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
Speech Disorders
Speech Production Measurement
Voice
Sound Spectrography
The graphic registration of the frequency and intensity of sounds, such as speech, infant crying, and animal vocalizations.
Pattern Recognition, Physiological
Cochlear Implantation
Surgical insertion of an electronic hearing device (COCHLEAR IMPLANTS) with electrodes to the COCHLEAR NERVE in the inner ear to create sound sensation in patients with residual nerve fibers.