Intelligibility of reverberant noisy speech with ideal binary masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2153-2161

  Roman, Nicoleta ^a   Woodruff, John ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIRED SIGNAL; DIRECT PATHS; IDEAL BINARY MASK; NOISE ENERGY; NOISY SPEECH; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERATION TIME; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TARGET SPEECH; TIME FREQUENCY;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255167374     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3631668     Document Type: Article

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