Benefits of amplification for speech recognition in background noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1675-1680

  Turner, Christopher W ^a   Henry, Belinda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLIFICATION; AUDITION; FREQUENCIES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HEARING LOSSES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036789691     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1506158     Document Type: Article

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