Relative contributions of passband and filter skirts to the intelligibility of bandpass speech: Some effects of context and amplitude

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 31-36

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIBLE FREQUENCIES; BAND INTELLIGIBILTY; BANDPASS SPEECH; FILTER SKIRTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SOUND RECORDING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0038810057     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1329836     Document Type: Article

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