Effects of noise suppression on intelligibility: Dependency on signal-to-noise ratios

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 531-539

  Hilkhuysen, Gaston ^a   Gaubitch, Nikolay ^b   Brookes, Mike ^b   Huckvale, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE SUPPRESSION; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SUBSPACE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855955706     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3665996     Document Type: Article

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