Effect of temporal fine structure on speech intelligibility modeling

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4199-4202

  Chen, Fei ^a   Guan, Tian ^a   Wong, Lena L N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENERAL FUNCTIONS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTELLIGIBILITY PREDICTIONS; INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; AUDITION; FORECASTING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; CHINA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHINA; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOFTWARE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886559508     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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