Effects of spatial and temporal integration of a single early reflection on speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 269-282

  Warzybok, Anna ^a   Rennies, Jan ^b   Brand, Thomas ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a,b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE NOISE; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE TYPES; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; TARGET SPEECH; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; TEMPORAL PROCESSING;

DETERIORATION; EXPERIMENTS; SEPARATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872077752     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4768880     Document Type: Article

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