Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 860-869

  Calandruccio, Lauren ^a   Dhar, Sumitrajit ^b   Bradlow, Ann R ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; SPEECH-ON-SPEECH MASKING; TARGET SPEECH;

LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955799086     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3458857     Document Type: Article

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