Effects of envelope discontinuities on perceptual restoration of amplitude-compressed speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3995-4005

  Bakent, Deniz ^a   Eiler, Cheryl ^a   Edwards, Brent ^a  

^a Starkey Hearing Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; NOISE BURSTS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; RELEASE TIME; SIGNAL LEVEL; SPEECH INFORMATION; SPEECH SEGMENTS; TEMPORAL MASKING;

AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; RESTORATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649092283     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3125329     Document Type: Article

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