Development of the Hearing In Noise Test for the measurement of speech reception thresholds in quiet and in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 1085-1099

  Nilsson, Michael ^a   Soli, Sigfrid D ^a   Sullivan, Jean A ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NOISE; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0028012490     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.408469     Document Type: Article

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