Semantic and phonetic enhancements for speech-in-noise recognition by native and non-native listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2339-2349

  Bradlow, Ann R ^a   Alexander, Jennifer A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; NON NATIVE LISTENERS; PHONETIC ENHANCEMENTS; SPEECH IN NOISE PERCEPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; NOISE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34047272820     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2642103     Document Type: Article

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