Speech segregation in rooms: Effects of reverberation on both target and interferer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1713-1723

  Lavandier, Mathieu ^a   Culling, John F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEADPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

INTERAURAL COHERENCE; SOUND SOURCES; SPEECH RECEPTION; SPEECH SEGREGATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; ENERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH;

EID: 35248861686     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2764469     Document Type: Article

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