Sound masking performance of time-reversed masker processed from the target speech

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-141

  Jiang, Bin ^a   Liebl, Andreas ^b   Leistner, Philip ^b   Yang, Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUBJECTIVE ANNOYANCE; TARGET SPEECH; TIME REVERSAL; TIME-REVERSED;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84855337830     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918499     Document Type: Article

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