Consonant recognition and the articulation index

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 2212-2223

  Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

ARTICULATION INDEX; CONFUSION MATRIX (CM); PERCEPTUAL FEATURES; SOUND-GROUP ENTROPY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONFUSION; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 17644365810     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1856231     Document Type: Article

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