Intelligibility of dual rectangular speech bands: Implications of observations concerning amplitude mismatch and asynchrony

Speech Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 551-558

  Warren, Richard M ^a   Bashford Jr , James A ^a   Lenz, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual band speech synergy; Rectangular speech bands; Speech asynchrony; Speech intelligibility; Speech level mismatch

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH BANDS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0037513417     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00178-4     Document Type: Article

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