Enhancing intelligibility of narrowband speech with out-of-band noise: Evidence for lateral suppression at high-normal intensity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 365-369

  Bashford Jr , James A ^a   Warren, Richard M ^a   Lenz, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LOW PASS FILTERS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FILTERED SPEECH; INTENSITY CODING; OUT-OF-BAND STIMULATION; SPECTRUM LEVELS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULATION; THEORY;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 12344334770     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1835513     Document Type: Article

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