Improving speech intelligibility by steady-state suppression as pre-processing in small to medium sized halls

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1365-1368

  Hodoshima, Nao ^a   Arai, Takayuki ^a   Inoue, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kinoshita, Keisuke ^a   Kusumoto, Akiko ^b  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; PROCESSING; REVERBERATION; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; OVERLAP-MASKING; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; REVERBERANT CONDITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STEADY-STATE PORTION; STEADY-STATE SUPPRESSION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 85009216251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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