Intelligibilities of 1-octave rectangular bands spanning the speech spectrum when heard separately and paired

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3261-3266

  Warren, Richard M ^a   Bashford Jr , James A ^a   Lenz, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

1-OCTAVE RECTANGULAR BANDS; PASSBANDS; SPEECH SPECTRUM; SPEECH THEORY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744573345     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2047228     Document Type: Article

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