Masking release for low- and high-pass-filtered speech in the presence of noise and single-talker interference

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 457-468

  Oxenham, Andrew J ^a   Simonson, Andrea M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH;

EID: 56249101605     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3021299     Document Type: Article

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