The modulation transfer function for speech intelligibility.

We systematically determined which spectrotemporal modulations in speech are necessary for comprehension by human listeners. Speech comprehension has been shown to be robust to spectral and temporal degradations, but the specific relevance of particular degradations is arguable due to the complexity...

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Main Authors: Taffeta M Elliott, Frédéric E Theunissen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2639724?pdf=render