An analysis of the masking of speech by competing speech using self-report data (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-26

  Agus, Trevor R ^a   Akeroyd, Michael A ^a   Noble, William ^b   Bhullar, Navjot ^b  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH TARGETS; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING;

HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 58649107633     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3025915     Document Type: Article

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