An international comparison of long-term average speech spectra

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 2108-2120

  Byrne, Denis ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Tran, Khanh ^a   Arlinger, Stig ^b   Wilbraham, Keith ^c   Cox, Robyn ^d   Hagerman, Bjorn ^e   Hetu, Raymond ^f   Kei, Joseph ^g   Lui, C ^g   Kiessling, Jurgen ^h   Nasser Kotby, M ⁱ   Nasser, Nasser H A ⁱ   El Kholy, Wafaa A H ⁱ   Nakanishi, Yasuko ^j   Oyer, Herbert ^k   Powell, Richard ^l   Stephens, Dafydd ^m   Meredith, Rhys ^m   Sirimanna, Tony ^m   Tavartkiladze, George ⁿ   Frolenkov, Gregory I ⁿ   Westerman, Soren ^o   Ludvigsen, Carl ^o   more..

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f GA UM ^*  (Canada)

^g Special Education ^*  (Hong Kong)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

ⁱ AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^j TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Sport Taranaki   (New Zealand)

^m Welsh Hearing Institute   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Children's Audiology Center   (Russian Federation)

^o NONE   (Denmark)

more..

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EID: 0027941802     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.410152     Document Type: Article

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