Effects of reverberation, background talker number, and compression release time on signal-to-noise ratio

Paul Reinhart1, Pavel Zahorik2, Pamela E Souza3

  • 1Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Paulreinhart2013@u.northwestern.edu.

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