Hybridizing conversational and clear speech to determine the degree of contribution of acoustic features to intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2308-2319

  Kain, Alexander ^a   Amano Kusumoto, Akiko ^a   Hosom, John Paul ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; BACKGROUND NOISES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; SPEAKING STYLES; SPEECH STIMULI;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949098981     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967844     Document Type: Article

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