Auditory models for gifted listeners

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1032-1044

  Shlien, Seymour ^a  

^a Digital Radio Broadcast Technologies Research Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AUDITORY MODELS; CODEC QUANTIZATION NOISE;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0034315006     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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