The dynamic range of useful temporal fine structure cues for speech in the presence of a competing talker

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2162-2172

  Stone, Michael A ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a   Füllgrabe, Christian ^b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CHANNEL; CHANNEL CARRIERS; CHANNEL-LEVEL; DYNAMIC RANGE; INFORMATION CONTENTS; REPLACEMENT METHODS; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; SWITCHING THRESHOLDS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

VOCODERS;

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

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

EID: 82255167372     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3625237     Document Type: Article

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