Speech intelligibility and localization in a multi-source environment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3436-3448

  Hawley, Monica L ^a   Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a   Colburn, H Steven ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033046283     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424670     Document Type: Review

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