Are The Perceptual Effects Of Spectral Smearing Influenced By Speaker Gender?

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 41-56

  Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a   Patael, Smadar ^a   Menahemi, Maya ^a   Amir, Noam ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

frequency resolution; speaker differences; spectral smearing; speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENDER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRAL SMEARING; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4444230352     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2004.15.1-2.41     Document Type: Article

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