Vocal effort with changing talker-to-listener distance in different acoustic environments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1981-1990

  Pelegrín García, David ^a   Smits, Bertrand ^a   Brunskog, Jonas ^a   Jeong, Cheol Ho ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACROSS DISTANCE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; SIDE EFFECT; SOUND PROPAGATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; VOCAL INTENSITY; VOICED SEGMENT;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954549190     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3552881     Document Type: Article

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