Using speech in noise to improve understandability for elderly listeners

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 392-396

  Langner, Brian ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH IN NOISE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33846225658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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