A new method for testing communication efficiency and user acceptability of speech communication channels

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1675-1678

  Van Wijngaarden, Sander J ^a   Smeele, Paula M T ^a   Steeneken, Herman J M ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EFFICIENCY; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TESTING;

BACKGROUND NOISE; COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY; LONG DELAYS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; SPEECH QUALITY; TEST DESIGNS; TEST METHOD;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 4344626316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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