Revision, extension, and evaluation of a binaural speech intelligibility model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2479-2497

  Beutelmann, Rainer ^a   Brand, Thomas ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INPUT SIGNAL; MEAN ABSOLUTE PREDICTION ERROR; MODIFIED MODEL; NOISE TYPES; NONSTATIONARY; ORIGINAL MODEL; PREDICTION QUALITY; SHORT TIME FRAMES; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; STATIONARY NOISE;

AUDITION; FORECASTING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EVALUATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954043629     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3295575     Document Type: Article

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