A detailed study on the effects of noise on speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2865-2871

  Dubbelboer, Finn ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY BANDS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

STATIONARY NOISES; WAVELET PATTERNS; WAVELET PHASES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

HUMANS; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 38049051897     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2783131     Document Type: Article

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