Development and evaluation of a German sentence test for objective and subjective speech intelligibility assessment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2412-2421

  Kollmeier, Birger ^a   Wesselkamp, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; LANGUAGE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030829791     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419624     Document Type: Article

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