Combining energetic and informational masking for speech identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 982-992

  Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Gallun, Frederick J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FREQUENCY BANDS; MASKERS; SOUND SEGREGATION; SPEECH TARGETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ENERGY; FEMALE; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 17644369955     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1953167     Document Type: Article

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