Multitalker speech perception with ideal time-frequency segregation: Effects of voice characteristics and number of talkers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4006-4022

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Chang, Peter S ^b   Simpson, Brian D ^a   Wang, Deliang ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC MASKING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; SPEECH-ON-SPEECH MASKING; TEMPORAL OVERLAP; TIME FREQUENCY; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

TARGETS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TECHNIQUE; VOICE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649095324     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3117686     Document Type: Article

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