The influence of spectral characteristics of early reflections on speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 996-1005

  Arweiler, Iris ^a   Buchholz, Jörg M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BINAURAL PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; VIRTUAL AUDITORY ENVIRONMENT;

AUDITION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052486080     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3609258     Document Type: Article

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