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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Evaluation of phoneme compression schemes designed to compensate for temporal and spectral masking in background noise

Evaluación de esquemas de compresión de fonemas diseñados para compensar el enmascaramiento temporal y espectral con ruido de fondo

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Pages 647-655 | Received 26 Feb 2003, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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