Development of familiarity-controlled word lists 2003 (FW03) to assess spoken-word intelligibility in Japanese

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-82

  Amano, Shigeaki ^a   Sakamoto, Shuichi ^b   Kondo, Tadahisa ^a   Suzuki, Yôiti ^b  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Word familiarity; Word intelligibility; Word list

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

LEXICAL INFORMATIONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; WORD FAMILIARITY; WORD INTELLIGIBILITIES; WORD INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD LIST;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 55049124301     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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