Using the Speech Transmission Index for predicting non-native speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1281-1291

  Van Wijngaarden, Sander J ^a   Bronkhorst, Adelbert W ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a   Steeneken, Herman J M ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; CORRELATION METHODS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI);

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CORRECTION FUNCTION; ENGINEERING; HEARING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; LISTENING; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NON NATIVE SPEECH COMMUNICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION;

HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1542376775     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1647145     Document Type: Article

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