Multichannel speech intelligibility and talker recognition using monaural, binaural, and three-dimensional auditory presentation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2224-2235

  Drullman, Rob ^a   Bronkhorst, Adelbert W ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BINAURAL HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; HEAD; HUMANS; MEMORY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0034037674     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428503     Document Type: Article

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