Quantifying the effects of fast-acting compression on the envelope of speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1654-1664

  Stone, Michael A ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; PULSE MODULATION; VOCODERS;

ACROSS SIGNAL MODULATION CORRELATION (ASMC); FREQUENCY CHANNELS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPRESSION; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34147188536     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2434754     Document Type: Article

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