Verifying two commercial software implementations of impulse-response-based speech intelligibility measurements

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 717-728

  Bowden, Erica E ^a   Wang, Lily M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation index; Impulse response; Intelligibility; Speech; Speech transmission

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ARTICULATION INDEX (AI); OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; OVER-PREDICT INTELLIGIBILITY; RAPID SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (RASTI);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34047110912     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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