Blind estimation of reverberation time

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2877-2892

  Ratnam, Rama ^a   Jones, Douglas L ^a   Wheeler, Bruce C ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a   Lansing, Charissa R ^a   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BLIND ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TECHNOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0242609086     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1616578     Document Type: Article

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