Talker differences in clear and conversational speech: Vowel intelligibility for normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 2365-2373

  Ferguson, Sarah Hargus ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; SPEAKING STYLES;

SPEECH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

NOISE;

EID: 6344282214     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1788730     Document Type: Article

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