Speech intelligibility assessment in a helium environment. II. The speech intelligibility index

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 1609-1615

  Mendel, Lisa Lucks ^a   Hamill, Bruce W ^b   Hendrix, James E ^c   Crepeau, Loring J ^d   Pelton, Jerry D ^d   Miley, Matthew D ^e   Kadlec, Elizabeth E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Oxford Signal Processing   (United States)

^d Navy Experimental Diving Unit   (United States)

^e XN Technologies   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; DIVING; HELMET; HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIVING; ENVIRONMENT; HELIUM; HUMANS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031664934     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424373     Document Type: Article

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