Active listening: Speech intelligibility in noisy environments

Acoustics Australia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 90-96

  Carlile, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ACOUSTICS LABORATORIES;

ACTIVE LISTENING; AUDITORY OBJECTS; COCKTAIL PARTY PROBLEMS; HETERARCHY; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; KEY ELEMENTS; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; RECENT RESEARCHES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84907499738     PISSN: 08146039     EISSN: 18392571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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