Effect of release time on preferred gain and speech acoustics

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 605-615

  Muller, Thomas F ^a   Harris, Frances P ^a   Ellison, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive procedure; Compression; Compression release time; Compression threshold; Gain; Hearing aid; Phoneme amplitude; Wide dynamic range compression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 16644399493     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.15.9.2     Document Type: Article

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