A speech enhancement scheme incorporating spectral expansion evaluated with simulated loss of frequency selectivity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1145-1157

  Lyzenga, Johannes ^a   Festen, J M ^a   Houtgast, T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPECTRAL SMEARING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; VOWEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0036712797     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1497619     Document Type: Article

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