Tackling the combined effects of reverberation and masking noise using ideal channel selection

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 500-510

  Hazrati, Oldooz ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dereverberation algorithms; Noise; Reverberation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859378027     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0073)     Document Type: Article

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