Some effects of talker variability on spoken word recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 365-378

  Mullennix, John W ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a   Martin, Christophers ^b  

^a Indiana University ^*

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ADULT; HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VOICE;

EID: 0024562112     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.397688     Document Type: Article

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