Speech production modifications produced by competing talkers, babble, and stationary noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3261-3275

  Lu, Youyi ^a   Cooke, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC MASKING; NOISE LEVELS; SPEECH PRODUCTIONS; STATIONARY NOISES; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; PRODUCTION; SPEECH;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTICS; EAR; HEARING; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 56749169816     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2990705     Document Type: Article

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