The combined effects of reverberation and nonstationary noise on sentence intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1269-1277

  George, Erwin L J ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; MODULATION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

BACKGROUND NOISES; COMBINED EFFECTS; NON-STATIONARY; NON-STATIONARY NOISE; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 49249085785     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2945153     Document Type: Article

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