Release from informational masking by time reversal of native and non-native interfering speech (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1274-1277

  Rhebergen, Koenraad S ^a   Versfeld, Niek J ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SPEECH RECEPTION; TIME REVERSED INTERFERING;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; HEARING; INFORMATION; INTERFERING SPEECH; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944565955     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2000751     Document Type: Article

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