Irrelevant speech effect under stationary and adaptive masking conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1970-1981

  Park, Munhum ^a   Kohlrausch, Armin ^a,c   Van Leest, Arno ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b ASML   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NOISE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MASKING SCHEMES; NONSTATIONARY; SPECTRAL DISTINCTIVENESS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; STATIONARY NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SPEECH;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883414942     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4816939     Document Type: Article

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