The effect of smoothing filter slope and spectral frequency on temporal speech information

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1177-1181

  Healy, Eric W ^a   Steinbach, Heidi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATED SINUSOIDS; SPECTRAL FREQUENCY; SPECTRAL REGION; SPEECH INFORMATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33846666908     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354019     Document Type: Article

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