Perception of Speech and Sound

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 61-82

  Kollmeier, Birger ^a   Brand, Thomas ^a   Meyer, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic Speech Recognition; Sound Pressure Level; Speech Intelligibility; Speech Perception; Speech Sound

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075951201     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_4     Document Type: Chapter

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