On the combined effects of signal-to-noise ratio and room acoustics on speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 1820-1828

  Bradley, J S ^a   Reich, R D ^a   Norcross, S G ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0032853943     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427932     Document Type: Article

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