The effect of intensity perturbations on speech intelligibility for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2202-2210

  Van Schijndel, Nicolle H ^a,b   Houtgast, Tammo ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; AUDITION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0035033927     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1358301     Document Type: Article

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