Effects of spectral modulation filtering on vowel identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1704-1715

  Liu, Chang ^a   Eddins, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c International Center for Hearing and Speech Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; AUDITION; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SULFATE MINERALS;

CUT-OFF FREQUENCIES; ENGLISH VOWELS; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; IDENTIFICATION PERFORMANCE; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SPECTRAL CONTRAST; SPECTRAL FEATURES; SPECTRAL MODULATION; SPECTRAL MODULATION DOMAIN; SPECTRAL SHAPING; SPECTRAL TILT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS; VOWEL STIMULI;

MODULATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52449109914     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2956468     Document Type: Article

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