Perceived naturalness of spectrally distorted speech and music

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 408-419

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Tan, Chin Tuan ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EARPHONES; FREQUENCIES; LOUDSPEAKERS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

SPECTRAL TILTS;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIGITAL FILTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEAD PHONE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; LOUDSPEAKER; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MICROPHONE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; TRANSDUCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0038504597     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1577552     Document Type: Article

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