Development and evaluation of a model for predicting the audibility of time-varying sounds in the presence of background sounds

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 906-918

  Glasberg, Brian R ^b   Moore, Brian C J ^a,b  

^a AES ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIBILITY; INSTANTANEOUS PARTIAL LOUDNESS (IPL); SHORT-TERM PARTIAL LOUDNESS (STPL);

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIN CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33846546219     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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