Effects of envelope expansion on speech recognition

Hearing Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 131-138

  Lorenzi, Christian ^a   Berthommier, Frédéric ^b   Apoux, Frédéric ^a   Bacri, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Background noise; Envelope expansion; Speech recognition; Temporal envelope

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032870574     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00117-3     Document Type: Article

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