Effects of spectral smearing and temporal fine structure degradation on speech masking release

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4023-4033

  Gnansia, Dan ^a,b,c   Ṕan, Vincent ^b,c   Meyer, Bernard ^c,d   Lorenzi, Christian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Laboratoire MXM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; AUDITORY PROCESSING; EXCITATION PATTERN; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION; STEADY NOISE; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

DEGRADATION; VOCODERS;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649120078     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3126344     Document Type: Article

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