Enhancement techniques to improve the intelligibility of consonants in noise: Speaker and listener effects

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Hazan, Valerie ^a   Simpson, Andrew ^a   Huckvale, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC CUES; CONDITION; OCCLUSION REGION; PHONETIC TRAINING; SPEECH IN NOISE; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; VOWEL STIMULI;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33645486754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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