Speech intelligibility in background noise with ideal binary time-frequency masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2336-2347

  Wang, Deliang ^a   Kjems, Ulrik ^b   Pedersen, Michael S ^b   Boldt, Jesper B ^b   Lunner, Thomas ^b,c  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; LOCAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; LOW-FREQUENCY RANGES; MIXTURE ENERGIES; NORMAL HEARINGS; SIGNAL SEPARATIONS; SPEECH PERCEPTIONS; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS; TIME FREQUENCIES;

AUDITION; EXPERIMENTS; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IDEAL BINARY TIME FREQUENCY MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 64649103540     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3083233     Document Type: Article

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