Listening difficulty as a subjective measure for evaluation of speech transmission performance in public spaces

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1607-1613

  Morimoto, Masayuki ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^b   Kobayashi, Masaaki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LISTENING; PUBLIC SPACES; SPEECH EVOLUTION;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4444353345     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1775276     Document Type: Article

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