Each stage in the life cycle of coal—extraction, transport, processing, and combustion—
generates a waste stream and carries multiple hazards for health and the environment …

The Desired Sensation Level (DSL) Method was revised to support hearing instrument fitting
for infants, young children, and adults who use modern hearing instrument technologies …

Acoustic masking from anthropogenic noise is increasingly being considered as a threat to
marine mammals, particularly low-frequency specialists such as baleen whales. Low …

Architectural Acoustics, Second Edition presents a thorough technical overview of the
discipline, from basic concepts to specific design advice. Beginning with a brief history, it …

Noise is everywhere and in most applications that are related to audio and speech, such as
human-machine interfaces, hands-free communications, voice over IP (VoIP), hearing aids …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and …

Two experiments examined the effects of processing fluency—that is, the ease with which
speech is processed—on language attitudes toward native-and foreign-accented speech …

As audio and telecommunication technologies develop, there is an increasing need to
evaluate the technical and perceptual performance of these innovations. A growing number …

Objectives: The first objective was to determine the relationship between speech level, noise
level, and signal to noise ratio (SNR), as well as the distribution of SNR, in real-world …

A complete overview of distant automatic speech recognition The performance of
conventional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems degrades dramatically as soon …