Effect of spectral frequency range and separation on the perception of asynchronous speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1691-1700

  Healy, Eric W ^a,b   Bacon, Sid P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ASYNCHRONOUS SPEECH; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; SPEECH ENERGY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34147153319     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2427113     Document Type: Article

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