Predicting speech intelligibility with multiple interfering sources

Proceedings of Forum Acusticum

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2133-2135

  Steven Colburn, H ^a   Wan, Rui ^a   Durlach, Nat ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL PROCESSING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; INTERFERING SOUNDS; INTERFERING SOURCES; MULTIPLE FACTORS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; RELATIVE LOCATION; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SPEECH MASKERS; SPEECH TARGETS; TARGET SOURCE; TARGET SPEECH; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84866006595     PISSN: 22213767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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