Selection of meaningless steady noise for masking of speech

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-210

  Saeki, Tetsuro ^a   Tamesue, Takahiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Shizuma ^a   Sunada, Kazuya ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Masking; Meaningless steady noise; Method of adjustment; Psychological impression; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

STEADY NOISE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0242659935     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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