Spatial and spectral factors in release from informational masking in speech recognition

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 537-545

  Freyman, Richard L ^a   Helfer, Karen S ^a   Balakrishnan, Uma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; FREQUENCIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LOW PASS FILTERS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH;

ENERGETIC MASKING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MASKERS; TARGET SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 19544374505     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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