Across-ear interference from parametrically degraded synthetic speech signale in a dichotic cocktail-party listening task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 292-304

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a   Darwin, Christopher J ^b   Arbogast, Tanya L ^c   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

MODULATED NOISE BAND (MNB); SEGREGATION OF SPEECH; SINE WAVES; TIME-REVERSED SPEECH SIGNALS;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 12344323813     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1835509     Document Type: Article

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