Role of modulation magnitude and phase spectrum towards speech intelligibility

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-339

  Paliwal, Kuldip ^a   Schwerin, Belinda ^a   Wójcicki, Kamil ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis frame duration; Analysis modification synthesis (AMS); Modulation domain; Modulation frame duration; Modulation magnitude spectrum; Modulation phase spectrum; Speech intelligibility; Speech transmission index (STI)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOMAINS; ANALYSIS FRAME DURATION; ANALYSIS-MODIFICATION-SYNTHESIS (AMS); DOMAIN PROCESSING; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; PHASE INFORMATION; PHASE SPECTRA; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI);

EXPERIMENTS; MODULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 79551488220     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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