The role of head-related time and level cues in the unmasking of speech in noise and competing speech

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 546-553

  Edmonds, Barrie A ^a   Culling, John F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AZIMUTHS; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE (ILD); INTERAURAL TIME DELAY (ITD); SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT);

SPEECH;

EID: 19544391653     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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