Effect of single-channel compression on temporal speech information

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 901-911

  Souza, Pamela E ^a   Turner, Christopher W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audibility; Signal correlated noise; Single channel compression; Speech; Temporal envelope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029849798     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3905.901     Document Type: Article

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