The foreign language cocktail party problem: Energetic and informational masking effects in non-native speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 414-427

  Cooke, Martin ^a   Garcia Lecumberri, M L ^b   Barker, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FOREIGN LANGUAGE; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37849011878     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2804952     Document Type: Article

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