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A new portable sound processor for the University of Melbourne/Nucleus Limited multielectrode cochlear implant

McDermott et al., 1992

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14775805541797571913
Author
McDermott H
Mckay C
Vandali A
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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A new processor, called the spectral maxima sound processor (SMSP), has been developed for the University of Melbourne/Nucleus Limited multielectrode cochlear implant. The SMSP analyses sound signals by means of a bandpass filterbank having 16 channels which are …
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