Spatial release from masking with noise-vocoded speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1627-1637

  Freyman, Richard L ^a   Balakrishnan, Uma ^a   Helfer, Karen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; ISOMERS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; TARGETS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; SPATIAL IMPRESSIONS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; THRESHOLD PERFORMANCE;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE VOCODED SPEECH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPREHENSION; CUES; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52449128658     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2951964     Document Type: Article

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