Evaluation of spectral enhancement in hearing aids, combined with phonemic compression

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 1452-1464

  Franck, Bas A M ^a   Van Kreveld Bos, C Sidonne G M ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a   Verschuure, Hans ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; DEAFNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 13044273606     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428055     Document Type: Article

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