Intelligibility of whispered speech in stationary and modulated noise maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2514-2523

  Freyman, Richard L ^a,b   Griffin, Amanda M ^a,b   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MASKING NOISE; NATURAL SPEECH; SQUARE-WAVE; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; VOCAL TRACT RESONANCES; WAVE FORMS; WHISPERED SPEECH;

AUDITION; FADING (RADIO); MODULATION; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867386498     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4747614     Document Type: Article

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