Time-forward speech intelligibility in time-reversed rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Longworth Reed, Laricia ^a   Brandewie, Eugene ^a   Zahorik, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); ROOM ACOUSTICS; SOURCE SIGNALS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STANDARD METHODS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; MODULATION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 58649112138     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3040024     Document Type: Article

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