Speech separation: Further insights from recordings of event-related brain potentials in humans

Speech Separation by Humans and Machines

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 13-30

  Alain, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 40749098241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-22794-6_3     Document Type: Chapter

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