The contribution of temporal fine structure to the intelligibility of speech in steady and modulated noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 442-446

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT); TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HUMANS; NOISE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58649090656     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3037233     Document Type: Article

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