Spectro-temporal modulation transfer functions and speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2719-2732

  Chi, Taishih ^a   Gao, Yujie ^a   Guyton, Matthew C ^a   Ru, Powen ^a   Shamma, Shihab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0040290402     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428100     Document Type: Article

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