Monaural speech segregation using synthetic speech signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2327-2333

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Iyer, Nandini ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; DIOTIC LISTENING TASK; MODULATED NOISE-BAND SPEECH (MNB); SPEECH SIGNAL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33645357538     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2170030     Document Type: Article

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