Effects of low-pass filtering on the intelligibility of speech in quiet for people with and without dead regions at high frequencies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1164-1175

  Vickers, D A ^a   Moore, B C J ^a   Baer, T ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CELLS; EARPHONES; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HIGH-FREQUENCY AMPLIFICATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HAIR CELLS, INNER; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034902191     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1381534     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. The contribution of high frequencies to speech recognition in sensorineural hearing loss
2. Evaluation of a scheme to compensate for reduced frequency selectivity in hearing-impaired subjects
3. Spectral contrast enhancement of speech in noise for listeners with sensorineural hearing impairment: Effects on intelligibility, quality and response times
4. Noise-induced hearing loss-Literature review and experiments in rabbits
5. Anthropometric manikin for acoustic research
6. The National Acoustic Laboratories' (NAL) new procedure for selecting the gain and frequency response of a hearing aid
7. Speech recognition of hearingimpaired listeners: Predictions from audibility and the limited role of highfrequency amplification
8. Effect of peak clipping on speech recognition threshold
9. Implications of previous research for the selection of frequency-gain characteristics
10. Stereocilia of sensory cells in normal and hearing impaired ears
11. Evaluation of an articulationindex based model for predicting the effects of adaptive frequency response hearing aids
12. The perception of sounds by deafened persons
13. Tuning curves and pitch matches in a listener with a unilateral, low-frequency hearing loss
14. Derivation of auditory filter shapes from notched-noise data
15. High-frequency audibility: Benefits for hearing-impaired listeners
16. Evaluation of two clinical versions of the articulation index
17. The use of the transposer for the management of the deaf child
18. Diffuse field response of the ear
19. The pressure transformation from a diffuse field to the external ear and to the body and head surface
20. Spatial cross correlation: A proposed mechanism for acoustic pitch perception
21. Improvements in speech perception with use of the AVR TranSonic frequency-transposing hearing aid
22. An analysis of perceptual, confusions among some English consonants
23. Effects of acoustic trauma on the representation of the vowel /ε/ in cat auditory nerve fibers
24. Dead regions in the cochlea: Diagnosis, perceptual consequences, and implications for the fitting of hearing aids
25. The use of psychophysical tuning curves to explore dead regions in the cochlea
26. A model of loudness perception applied to cochlear hearing loss
27. Use of a loudness model for hearing aid fitting. I. Linear hearing aids
28. Psychoacoustics of dead regions
29. A test for the diagnosis of dead regions in the cochlea
30. Improvements in speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise produced by two-channel compression hearing aids
31. Performance of hearing-impaired and normal hearing listeners with various high-frequency cut-offs in hearing aids
32. Comparison of performance with frequency transposition hearing aids and conventional hearing aids
33. Derivation of primary parameters and procedures for use in speech intelligibility predictions
34. An articulation index based procedure for predicting the speech recognition performance of hearing-impaired individuals
35. Use of the articulation index for assessing residual auditory function in listeners with sensorineural hearing impairment
36. Intelligibility of frequency-lowered speech produced by a channel vocoder
37. An application of the articulation index to hearing aid fitting
38. Adaptation by normal listeners to upward spectral shifts of speech: Implications for cochlear implants
39. Speech recognition with altered spectral distribution of envelope cues
40. The acoustics of the external ear
41. Amplification bandwidth and intelligibility of speech in quiet and noise for listeners with sensorineural hearing loss
42. Speech reception in quiet and in noisy conditions by individuals with noise-induced hearing loss in relation to their tone audiogram
43. A central spectrum model: A synthesis of auditory-nerve timing and place cues in monaural communication of frequency spectrum
44. Low-frequency hearing loss: Perception of filtered speech, psychophysical tuning curves, and masking
45. Pure tone pitch perception and low-frequency hearing loss
46. Speech audibility for listeners with high-frequency hearing loss
47. Proportional frequency compression of speech for listeners with sensorineural hearing loss
48. The acceptability of spectrum-preserving and spectrum-destroying transposition to severely hearing-impaired listeners
49. Effects of lowpass filtering on speech intelligibility for listeners with dead regions at high frequencies
50. Signal processing to improve speech intelligibility in perceptive deafness
51. Consonant confusions in noise: A study of perceptual features
52. Cochlear structure and function
53. Representation of steady-state vowels in the temporal aspects of the discharge patterns of populations of auditory-nerve fibres