Measuring the acoustic effects of compression amplification on speech in noise (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-44

  Souza, Pamela E ^a   Jenstad, Lorienne M ^a,b   Boike, Kumiko T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; WIDE-DYNAMIC-RANGE COMPRESSION (WDRC);

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; AMPLIFICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 30844457069     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2108861     Document Type: Article

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