Speech recognition of hearing-impaired listeners: Predictions from audibility and the limited role of high-frequency amplification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1128-1140

  Ching, Teresa Y C ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Byrne, Denis ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGNOSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031934465     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421224     Document Type: Article

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