Prediction of binaural speech intelligibility with frequency-dependent interaural phase differences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1359-1368

  Beutelmann, Rainer ^a   Brand, Thomas ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; CURRENT MODELS; FILTER BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; INTERAURAL PHASE DIFFERENCES; LOGARITHMIC FREQUENCY; OBSERVED DATA; REFERENCE CONDITION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD;

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY MODULATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349139292     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3177266     Document Type: Article

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