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Original Article

Evaluation of an audiovisual-FM system: Speechreading performance as a function of distance

Evaluación de un sistema FM audiovisual: Rendimiento en lectura labial en función de la distancia

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Pages 295-300 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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