The effect of compression ratio and release time on the categorical rating of sound quality

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 2273-2281

  Neuman, Arlene C ^a   Bakke, Matthew H ^a,b   Mackersie, Carol ^a,c   Hellman, Sharon ^a   Levitt, Harry ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Lexington Center Inc   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031840366     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.422745     Document Type: Article

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