Effects on speech intelligibility of temporal jittering and spectral smearing of the high-frequency components of speech

Hearing Research

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 63-66

  MacDonald, Ewen N ^a,b,c   Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^b,c   Schneider, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Spectral smearing; Speech intelligibility; Temporal jitter; Word identification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NERVOUSNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76949101551     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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