A model of the VU (volume-unit) meter, with speech applications

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 279-285

  Lobdell, Bryce E ^a   Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BULK WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

METER READING TIME; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SPEECH LEVELS; VOLUME-UNIT (VU) METER;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETER; AUDIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LOUDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL METER; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STANDARD; VOLUMETRY;

AUDIOLOGY; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33846265372     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2387130     Document Type: Article

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