Speech intelligibility in noise with fast compression hearing aids

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 127-150

  Verschuure, J ^a   Benning, F J ^a   Van Cappellen, M ^a   Dreschler, W A ^b   Boeremans, P P ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Background noise; Compression; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031799814     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00206099809072968     Document Type: Article

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