Study of speech intelligibility in noisy enclosures using spherical microphones arrays

2008 Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Proceedings, HSCMA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 160-163

  Peled, Yotam ^a   Rafaely, Boaz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Reverberation; Room acoustics; Speech intelligibility; Spherical microphone arrays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTICS; ENCLOSURES; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SPEECH;

MICROPHONE ARRAYS; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAYS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 50449091836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2008.4538711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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