Speech segregation in rooms: Monaural, binaural, and interacting effects of reverberation on target and interferer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2237-2248

  Lavandier, Mathieu ^a   Culling, John F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; HEADPHONES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMPETING VOICES; LISTENING BINAURALLY; SEGREGATE COMPETING VOICES; SPEECH INTERFERERS;

REVERBERATION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STIMULUS; VOICE;

ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 41849151101     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2871943     Document Type: Article

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