Effect of room absorption on human vocal output in multitalker situations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 803-813

  Nijs, Lau ^a   Saher, Konca ^a   Den Ouden, Daniël ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; DYNAMIC MODELS; LOGARITHMIC AMPLIFIERS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; LOMBARD EFFECTS; MODEL ESTIMATION; NOISE SOURCES; NOISY ENVIRONMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND ATTENUATION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CROWDING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 38849093975     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821410     Document Type: Article

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