Dichotic speech recognition in noise using reduced spectral cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 475-483

  Loizou, Philipos C ^a   Mani, Arunvijay ^a   Dorman, Michael F ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCIES; LINGUISTICS;

SPECTRAL FUSION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038504528     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1582861     Document Type: Article

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