Speech detection in spatial and nonspatial speech maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2680-2691

  Balakrishnan, Uma ^a   Freyman, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; LOUDSPEAKERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

FEMALE TALKERS; SPEECH DETECTION; TIME-REVERSED SPATIAL MASKERS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOFTWARE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 43549096179     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2902176     Document Type: Article

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