Binaural intelligibility prediction based on the speech transmission index

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4514-4523

  Van Wijngaarden, Sander J ^a   Drullman, Rob ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); BINAURAL HEARING; CORRELOGRAMS; DICHOTIC LISTENING; MODEL PARAMETERS; NEW MODEL; SIMPLE MODELING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI); WIDE-RANGE;

SPEECH;

ADULT; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOWEL;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949209476     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2905245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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