Pitch-based monaural segregation of reverberant speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 458-469

  Roman, Nicoleta ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HEARING AIDS; REVERBERATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADDITIVE NOISE; PITCH-BASED SEGREGATION ALGORITHM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SEGREGATION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEARING AID; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONAURAL HEARING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WHITE NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33745761651     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2204590     Document Type: Article

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