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The Oreja software package (available from www.liv.ac.uk/psychology/Downloads/Oreja.htm) was designed to study speech intelligibility. It is a tool that allows manipulation of speech signals to facilitate study of human speech perception. A feature of this package is that it uses a high-level interpreted scripting environment (MATLAB), allowing the user to load, break down into different channels, analyze, and select the parts of the signal(s) of interest (e.g., attenuation of the amplitude of the selected channels, addition of noise, etc.).
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The development of this software has been partially supported by HOARSE Grant HPRN-CT-2002-00276 and a Fulbright scholarship granted to the first author.
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Pérez, E., Rodriguez-Esteban, R. Oreja: A MATLAB environment for the design of psychoacoustic stimuli. Behavior Research Methods 38, 574–578 (2006). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193887
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