Effects of lowpass and highpass filtering on the intelligibility of speech based on temporal fine structure or envelope cues

Hearing Research

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 89-95

  Ardoint, Marine ^a   Lorenzi, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Filtering; Intelligibility; Speech; Temporal envelope; Temporal fine structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73849121417     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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