The role of high frequencies in speech localization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 353-363

  Best, Virginia ^a   Carlile, Simon ^a   Jin, Craig ^b   Van Schaik, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ERRORS; FILTRATION; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONE OF CONFUSION; HUMAN LISTENERS; LOCALIZATION; SPOKEN WORDS; VIRTUAL AUDITORY ENVIRONMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 22144433359     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1926107     Document Type: Article

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