Room acoustics and speech perception

Seminars in Hearing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-166

  Boothroyd, Arthur ^a,b  

^a City University of New York ^*  (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom acoustics; FM amplification; Reverberation; Room acoustics; Sound field amplification; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AIR CONDITIONING; ATTENTION; AUDIOLOGY; HEARING; HEATING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONEME; REVIEW; ROOM VENTILATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 2542533014     PISSN: 07340451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-828666     Document Type: Review

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