Factors influencing intelligibility of ideal binary-masked speech: Implications for noise reduction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1673-1682

  Li, Ning ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BINARY SEQUENCES; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BINARY-MASKED SPEECH; MULTITALKER ENVIRONMENTS; SEGREGATE SPEECH;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40749125179     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2832617     Document Type: Article

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