Effects of contrast between onsets of speech and other complex spectra

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2225-2235

  Coady, Jeffry A ^a   Kluender, Keith R ^a   Rhode, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITORY PROCESSES;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142090007     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1608955     Document Type: Article

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