Temporal properties in clear speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 424-432

  Liu, Sheng ^a   Zeng, Fan Gang ^b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

PHONETIC SEGMENTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNIFORM TIME SCALING;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CUES; HUMANS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745742166     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2208427     Document Type: Article

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