The influence of noise on vowel and consonant cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3874-3888

  Parikh, Gaurang ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RELIABILITY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; MULTI-TALKER BABBLE; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 29244492313     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2118407     Document Type: Article

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