The National Acoustic Laboratories' (NAL) CDs of speech and noise for hearing aid evaluation: Normative data and potential applications

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-35

  Keidser, Gitte ^a   Ching, Teresa ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Agung, Katrina ^a   Brew, Christopher ^a   Brewer, Scott ^a   Fisher, Michael ^a   Foster, Levi ^a   Grant, Frances ^a   Storey, Lydia ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CALIBRATION; COMPACT DISK; CONSONANT; DATA ANALYSIS; HEARING AID; LABORATORY; LANGUAGE; NOISE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOWEL;

EID: 0036943821     PISSN: 01571532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/audi.24.1.16.31112     Document Type: Article

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