Prior listening in rooms improves speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 291-299

  Brandewie, Eugene ^a   Zahorik, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; COORDINATE RESPONSE MEASURES; LISTENING-IN; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; PERCENTAGE POINTS; REVERBERANT ROOM; ROOM ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; TARGET SPEECH; VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE;

ECHO SUPPRESSION; REFLECTION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955208825     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3436565     Document Type: Article

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