The Effects of Phase Information on the Intelligibility of Channel Vocoded Speech
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چکیده
The intelligibility of vocoded speech with various phase spectra was compared to the intelligibility of the original input natural speech. It was found that vocoded speech with true natural phase was the closest to natural speech in intelligibility.
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