The sound quality of car horns: A psychoacoustical study of timbre

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 457-468

  Lemaitre, Guillaume ^a   Susini, Patrick ^a   Winsberg, Suzanne ^a   McAdams, Stephen ^a,c   Letinturier, Boris ^b  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b SCE Klaxon   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

PERCEPTUAL VALIDATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICAL STUDY; ROAD USERS; SOUND QUALITY; TIMBRE;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250852850     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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