Consistency among speech parameter vectors: Application to predicting speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3882-3898

  Power, Matthew H ^a   Braida, Louis D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HISTOGRAM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029776609     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417243     Document Type: Article

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