Effect of masker modulation depth on speech masking release

Hearing Research

Volumn 239, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 60-68

  Gnansia, Dan ^a,b,c   Jourdes, Vincent ^b,c   Lorenzi, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c Laboratoire MXM   (France)

Author keywords

Background noise; Glimpsing; Masking release; Modulation depth; Speech intelligibility; Temporal fine structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STEADY STATE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42649138242     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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