Investigating alternative forms of clear speech: The effects of speaking rate and speaking mode on intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2165-2172

  Krause, Jean C ^a   Braida, Louis D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AUDITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036841359     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1509432     Document Type: Article

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