High-rate envelope information in many channels provides resistance to reduction of speech intelligibility produced by multi-channel fast-acting compression (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2155-2158

  Stone, Michael A ^a   Füllgrabe, Christian ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION CHANNELS; COMPRESSION SPEED; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; HIGH RATE; MULTI-CHANNEL;

VOCODERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449337571     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238159     Document Type: Article

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