Effects of spectro-temporal modulation changes produced by multi-channel compression on intelligibility in a competing-speech task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1063-1076

  Stone, Michael A ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA COMPRESSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; VOCODERS;

BACKGROUND TALKERS; MULTICHANNEL COMPRESSION; SPECTROTEMPORAL MODULATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; COMPRESSION; DEVICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 38849154558     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821969     Document Type: Article

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