INTELLIGIBILITY OF THE PHONETIC ALPHABET WHEN MASKED BY RANDOM WHITE NOISE

Abstract

The Listen Study was designed to develop and test a training method to increase the ability of Air Force personnel in identifying verbal signals masked by jamming. Findings relating to alphabet intelligibility are presented. There was wide spread variation in the percentage of times the 26 words used in the military alphabet were missed when masked by random white noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0404051

Entities

People

  • M. S. Sheldon
  • R. P. Cunningham

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Alphabets
  • Civil Aviation
  • Consonants
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Intelligibility
  • Neurobehavioral Manifestations
  • Noise
  • Speech
  • Syllables
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Universities
  • White Noise
  • X Rays

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.