ICRA noises: Artificial noise signals with speech-like spectral and temporal properties for hearing instrument assessment;Ruidos ICRA: Señates de ruido artificial con espectro similar al habla y propiedades temporales para pruebas de instrumentos auditivos

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 148-157

  Dreschler, Wouter A ^a   Verschuure, Hans ^b   Ludvigsen, Carl ^c   Westermann, Søren ^c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Tøpholm Westermann   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Background noise; Hearing aid; Modulation spectrum; Speech spectrum; Technical specification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITALIZATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STANDARD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONATION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 0034920512     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00206090109073110     Document Type: Article

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