Isolating the energetic component of speech-on-speech masking with ideal time-frequency segregation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4007-4018

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Chang, Peter S ^b   Simpson, Brian D ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH MASKING; SPEECH WAVE; TARGET SPEECH WAVE; TIME FREQUENCY SEGREGATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845354768     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2363929     Document Type: Article

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