Perceived performance of loudspeaker-spatialized speech for teleconferencing

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 771-784

  Evans, Michael J ^a,c   Tew, Anthony I ^b   Angus, James A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; LOUDSPEAKERS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

LISTENERS; SPATIAL AUDIO REPRODUCTION; TELEPRESENCE;

TELECONFERENCING;

EID: 0034270901     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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