Effects of fundamental frequency and vocal-tract length changes on attention to one of two simultaneous talkers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2913-2922

  Darwin, Christopher J ^a   Brungart, Douglas S ^b   Simpson, Brian D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Veridian Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

VOCAL TRACT;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MONAURAL HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCAL CORD;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 0242609078     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1616924     Document Type: Article

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