Consonant confusions in amplitude-expanded speech

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1124-1137

  Freyman, Richard L ^a   Nerbonne, G Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope; Expansion; Loudness recruitment; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

HUMANS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029904033     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3906.1124     Document Type: Article

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