SUS-based method for speech reception threshold measurement in French

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2028-2033

  Raake, Alexander ^a   Katz, Brian F G ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TESTING;

COMMUNICATION SITUATIONS; CROSS LANGUAGES; INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS; MULTI-SOURCES; SENTENCE INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH TARGETS; TEXT MATERIALS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 85016957091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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