OBJECTIVE PREDICTION OF SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY AT HIGH AMBIENT NOISE LEVELS USING THE SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 2639-2642

  van Wijngaarden, Sander J ^a   Steeneken, Herman J M ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

AMBIENT NOISE; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE RATIO; NOISE SPECTRUM; SOUND'S LEVELS; SPEECH IN NOISE; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH SPECTRUM; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; THRESHOLD MEASUREMENTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0010571148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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