Prediction of the influence of reverberation on binaural speech intelligibility in noise and in quiet

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2999-3012

  Rennies, Jan ^a,b   Brand, Thomas ^b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; BINAURAL PROCESSING; CORRECTION FACTORS; NOISE SOURCE; NORMAL HEARING; ORIGINAL MODEL; REVERBERANT ROOM; SPATIAL UNMASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH SIGNALS;

AUDITION; FORECASTING; REVERBERATION; SEPARATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 81355153916     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3641368     Document Type: Article

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