Speech intelligibility among modulated and spatially distributed noise sources

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2254-2261

  Culling, John F ^a   Mansell, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED NOISE; HEAD-RELATED IMPULSE RESPONSE; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; MODULATION DEPTH; MODULATION RATES; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING;

MODULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876099918     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4794384     Document Type: Article

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