Intelligibility of bandpass filtered speech: Steepness of slopes required to eliminate transition band contributions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1292-1295

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCIES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FILTER SLOPES; FILTERED SPEECH;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BANDPASS FILTERED SPEECH; FILTRATION; FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTERING; HUMAN; MALE; MALE VOICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOPE STEEPNESS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRANSITION BAND; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542347062     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1646404     Document Type: Article

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