Objective measures for predicting speech intelligibility in noisy conditions based on new band-importance functions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3387-3405

  Ma, Jianfen ^a,b   Hu, Yi ^b   Loizou, Philipos C ^b  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATION INDICES; IMPORTANCE FUNCTIONS; INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; NOISE CONDITIONS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OBJECTIVE MEASURES; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

AUDITION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; CAR; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOWEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RAILROADS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 65549157071     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3097493     Document Type: Article

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