Role of masker predictability in the cocktail party problem

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3818-3830

  Jones, Gary L ^a   Litovsky, Ruth Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCKTAIL PARTY PROBLEMS; REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SPEECH MASKERS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS;

EXPERIMENTS; LOCATION; RELUCTANCE MOTORS; TARGETS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049091096     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2996336     Document Type: Article

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