Intelligibility of speech in a virtual 3-D environment

Human Factors

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 272-286

  MacDonald, Justin A ^a   Balakrishnan, J D ^a   Orosz, Michael D ^a   Karplus, Walter J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITORY DISPLAY DESIGNS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036624731     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720024497934     Document Type: Article

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