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Original Article

Preliminary Evaluation of a Formant Enhancement Algorithm on the Perception of Speech in Noise for Normally Hearing Listeners

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Pages 15-27 | Received 16 Oct 1992, Accepted 28 May 1993, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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