An auditory model for intelligibility and quality predictions

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kates, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FILTER BANKS; AUDITORY THRESHOLDS; BASILAR MEMBRANES; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; QUALITY PREDICTION; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; TEMPORAL ALIGNMENT; TWO-TONE SUPPRESSION;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BANDWIDTH; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); FILTER BANKS; FORECASTING; GROUP DELAY; HEARING AIDS;

AUDITION;

EID: 84878968499     PISSN: 1939800X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4799223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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