Intelligibility of 1/3-octave speech: Greater contribution of frequencies outside than inside the nominal passband

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Warren, Richard M ^a   Bashford Jr , James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HUMANS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032716171     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427606     Document Type: Article

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