Effect of masker type and age on speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking in children and adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2177-2189

  Johnstone, Patti M ^a   Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MASKERS; INTERFERERS; SPATIAL RELEASE FROM MASKING (SRM); SPEECH SIGNALS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WHITE NOISE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL RELEASE FROM MASKING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33748644961     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2225416     Document Type: Article

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