Measuring the threshold for speech reception by adaptive variation of the signal bandwidth. I. Normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2895-2902

  Noordhoek, Ingrid M ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RECEPTION QUALITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SOUND-PRESSURE LEVELS (SPL); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX (SII) MODEL; SPEECH-RECEPTION BANDWIDTH THRESHOLD (SRBT) TEST; SUPRATHRESHOLD SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0032916885     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426903     Document Type: Article

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