Effects of periodic masker interruption on the intelligibility of interrupted speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1693-1701

  Iyer, Nandini ^a,b   Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERIODIC MASKER INTERRUPTION; SPEECH MASKERS; SPEECH SIGNALS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 35248823680     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2756177     Document Type: Article

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