The binaural performance of a cross-talk cancellation system with matched or mismatched setup and playback acoustics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1056-1069

  Akeroyd, Michael A ^a   Chambers, John ^a   Bullock, David ^a   Palmer, Alan R ^a   Summerfield, A Quentin ^a,c   Nelson, Philip A ^b   Gatehouse, Stuart ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOUDSPEAKERS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AUDIO BANDWIDTH; CROSS TALK CANCELLATION; OPTIMAL SOURCE DISTRIBUTION (OSD); VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE;

CROSSTALK;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BINAURAL HEARING; LOUDNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; MANIKINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846706114     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2404625     Document Type: Article

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