The importance for speech intelligibility of random fluctuations in "steady" background noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2874-2881

  Stone, Michael A ^a   Fllgrabe, Christian ^a,b   MacKinnon, Robert C ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; N-CHANNEL; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE VALUES; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; STEADY NOISE;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81355133130     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3641371     Document Type: Article

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