Effect of analysis window duration on speech intelligibility

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 15, Issue , 2008, Pages 785-788

  Paliwal, Kuldip ^a   Wojcicki, Kamil ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis window duration; Magnitude spectrum; Speech intelligibility; Speech transmission index (STI)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS WINDOW DURATION; ANALYSIS WINDOWS; CONSONANT RECOGNITION; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; SPEECH STIMULI; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI); SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; WINDOWS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 67650143408     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2005755     Document Type: Article

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