Analysis of speech-based speech transmission index methods with implications for nonlinear operations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3679-3689

  Goldsworthy, Ray L ^b   Greenberg, Julie E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DEGRADATION; MODULATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; NONLINEAR OPERATION; NONLINEAR SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI);

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 11144348189     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1804628     Document Type: Article

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