Consonant confusions in white noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1220-1233

  Phatak, Sandeep A ^a,b   Lovitt, Andrew ^a   Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; COMPETITION; EXPERIMENTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; WHITE NOISE;

ARTICULATION INDEX; CONFUSION MATRICES; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; MASKING NOISES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; VOICE; WHITE NOISE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 49249135127     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2913251     Document Type: Article

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