On the importance of early reflections for speech in rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3233-3244

  Bradley, J S ^a   Sato, H ^a   Picard, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ROOM ACOUSTICS DESIGN;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0037945504     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1570439     Document Type: Article

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