Speech perception of noise with binary gains

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2303-2307

  Wang, DeLang ^a   Kjems, Ulrik ^b   Pedersen, Michael S ^b   Boldt, Jesper B ^b   Lunner, Thomas ^b,c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BINARY MASKS; FRAME RATES; LOCAL TIME; NOISE ENERGY; SPEECH INFORMATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53949095896     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967865     Document Type: Article

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