Enhancing a tone by shifting its frequency or intensity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3837-3845

  Erviti, Mayalen ^a   Semal, Catherine ^a   Demany, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTING;

AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY SHIFT; PINK NOISE; PURE TONES;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY;

EID: 79959467362     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3589257     Document Type: Article

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