A psychoacoustic model for the noise masking of plosive bursts

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2789-2802

  Hant, James J ^a   Strope, Brian P ^a   Alwan, Abeer A ^a  

^a Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering California NanoSystems Institute Henry Samuli School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 0030921513     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418565     Document Type: Article

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