Speech production in noise with and without hearing protection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1069-1080

  Tufts, Jennifer B ^a,b   Frank, Tom ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH PRODUCTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MEDICAL APPLICATION;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EAR PROTECTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0042569037     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1592165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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