Binaural segregation in multisource reverberant environments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4040-4051

  Roman, Nicoleta ^a   Srinivasan, Soundararajan ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BINAURAL PROCESSOR; BINAURAL SEGREGATION; HUMAN LISTENING; TIME FREQUENCY BINARY MASK;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; DECISION MAKING; FILTER; HEARING; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845361885     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2355480     Document Type: Article

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