Measuring the critical band for speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1083-1091

  Healy, Eric W ^a,b   Bacon, Sid P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESOLUTION; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TUNING; SPEECH SPECTRUM; VERTICAL FILTER SLOPES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDWIDTH; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TUNING;

SPEECH;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 31744435549     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2162176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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