The contribution of obstruent consonants and acoustic landmarks to speech recognition in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3947-3958

  Li, Ning ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LANDMARKS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; PARTIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL REGIONS; VOICED SOUNDS;

ACOUSTICS; EXPERIMENTS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; HUMANS; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049097670     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2997435     Document Type: Article

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