Sentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 519-526

  Van Engen, Kristin J ^a   Bradlow, Ann R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; MANDARIN CHINESE BABBLE;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MASKING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846199600     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2400666     Document Type: Article

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