Spectral and temporal cues for phoneme recognition in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1758-1764

  Xu, Li ^a   Zheng, Yunfang ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; VOCODERS;

CONSONANT RECOGNITION; PHONEME RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CUES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONSONANT; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35248862134     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2767000     Document Type: Article

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