Auralization study of optimum reverberation times for speech intelligibility for normal and hearing-impaired listeners in classrooms with diffuse sound fields

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 801-807

  Yang, Wonyoung ^a   Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BABBLE-NOISE SIGNALS; MODIFIED RHYME TEST (MRT); NOISE SOURCE; SPEECH SOURCE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SCHOOLS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747053402     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2216768     Document Type: Article

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