The cocktail party phenomenon: A review of research on speech intelligibility in multiple-talker conditions

Acustica

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-128

  Bronkhorst, Adelbert W ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0039334758     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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