Speech localization in a multitalker mixture

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1450-1457

  Kopčo, Norbert ^a   Best, Virginia ^b   Carlile, Simon ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; AUDIO-VISUAL; ERROR REDUCTION; INTENSITY RATIO; RMS ERRORS; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; TARGET DETECTABILITY; TARGET LOCATION;

TARGETS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950410207     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3290996     Document Type: Article

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