Oral information masking considering room environmental condition Part 1: Synthesis of maskers and examination on their masking efficiency

Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1930-1939

  Ito, A ^a   Miki, A ^a   Shimizu, Y ^a   Ueno, K ^b   Lee, H J ^b   Sakamoto, S ^b  

^a YAMAHA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC ROOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MASKING EFFICIENCIES; MASKING NOISE; MASKING SOUNDS; RANDOM NOISE; SOUND MASKING; SPEECH PRIVACY; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; WORD INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS;

EFFICIENCY; EXHIBITIONS; SEPARATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84873963979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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