Binaural prediction of speech intelligibility in reverberant rooms with multiple noise sources

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 218-231

  Lavandier, Mathieu ^a   Jelfs, Sam ^b   Culling, John F ^c   Watkins, Anthony J ^d   Raimond, Andrew P ^d   Makin, Simon J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; INTERFERING SOUNDS; INTERFERING SOURCES; NOISE SOURCE; PREDICTION METHODS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; REVERBERANT ROOM; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; STATIONARY NOISE; TARGET SPEECH;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855914364     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3662075     Document Type: Article

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