Channel selection in the modulation domain for improved speech intelligibility in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2904-2913

  Wójcicki, Kamil K ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84863098319     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3688488     Document Type: Article

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