The dynamic range of speech, compression, and its effect on the speech reception threshold in stationary and interrupted noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3236-3245

  Rhebergen, Koenraad S ^a   Versfeld, Niek J ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE COMPRESSION; CURRENT MODELS; DYNAMIC RANGE; MASKING NOISE; NOISE SIGNALS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH SIGNALS; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

AUDITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549086969     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257225     Document Type: Article

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