Word recognition in noise at higher-than-normal levels: Decreases in scores and increases in masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 914-922

  Dubno, Judy R ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MASKING; MONOSYLLABIC WORDS; NONLINEAR GROWTH; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTICULATION INDEX; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE THRESHOLD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 23744469330     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1953107     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Amos, N. E. and Humes, L. E. (2001). "The contribution of high frequencies to speech recognition in sensorineural hearing loss," in Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function, edited by D. J. Breebaart, A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs and R. Schoonhoven (Shaker Maastricht, Netherlands), pp. 437-444.
2. ANSI (1996). ANSI S3.6-1996, "American National Standard Specification for Audiometers" (American National Standards Institute, New York).
3. ANSI (1997). ANSI S3.5-1997, "American National Standard Methods for the Calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index" (American National Standards Institute, New York).
4. Ching, T., Dillon, H., and Byrne, D. (1998). "Speech recognition of hearing-impaired listeners: Predictions from audibility and the limited role of high-frequency amplification," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 1128-1140.
5. Dubno, J. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (1997), "Additivity of multiple maskers of speech," in Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss, edited by W. Jesteadt (Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ), pp. 253-272.
6. Dubno, J. R., Ahlstrom, J. B., and Horwitz, A. R. (2000). "Use of context by younger and older adults with normal hearing", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 538-546.
7. Dubno, J. R., Horwitz, A. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2005). "Recognition of filtered words in noise at higher-than-normal levels: Decreases in scores with and without increases in masking," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 923-933.
8. Egan, J. P. (1948). "Articulation testing methods," Laryngoscope 58, 955-991.
9. French, N., and Steinberg, J. (1947). "Factors governing the intelligibility of speech sounds," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 19, 90-119.
10. Green, D. M. (1993). "A maximum-likelihood method for estimating thresholds in a yes-no task," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2096-2105.
11. Hawkins, J., and Stevens, S. (1950). "The masking of pure tones and of speech by white noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 22, 6-13.
12. Hirsh, I., Davis, H., Silverman, S. R., Reynolds, E., Eldert, E., and Benson, R. W. (1952). "Development of materials for speech audiometry," J. Speech Hear Disord. 17, 321-337.
13. Hogan, C., and Turner, C. (1998). "High-frequency audibility: Benefits for hearing-impaired listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 432-441.
14. Hornsby, B., and Ricketts, T. (2001). "The effects of compression ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, and level on speech recognition in normal-hearing listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2964-2973.
15. Horwitz, A. R., Ahlstrom, J. B., and Dubno, J. R. (2004). "Factors affecting the benefits of high-frequency speech audibility," poster presented at the International Hearing Aid Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2004.
16. Kalikow, D., Stevens, K., and Elliott, L. (1977). "Development of a test of speech intelligibility in noise using test material with controlled word predictability," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 1337-1351.
17. Leek, M. R., Dubno, J. R., He, N.-j., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2000). "Experience with a yes-no single-interval maximum-likelihood procedure," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 2674-2684.
18. Molis, M. R., and Summers, V. (2003). "Effects of high presentation levels on recognition of low- and high-frequency speech," ARLO 4, 124-128.
19. Oxenham, A., and Bacon, S. P. (2003). "Cochlear compression: Perceptual measures and implications for normal and impaired hearing," Ear Hear. 24, 352-366.
20. Oxenham, A., and Plack, C. (1997). "A behavioral measure of basilar-membrane nonlinearity in listeners with normal and impaired hearing," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 3666-3675.
21. Pollack, I., and Pickett, J. (1958). "Masking of speech by noise at high sound levels," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 30, 127-130.
22. Robles, L., Ruggero, M., and Rich, N. (1986). "Basilar membrane mechanics at the base of the chinchilla cochlea. I. Input-output functions, tuning curves, and phase responses," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 80, 1364-1374.
23. Ruggero, M., Rich, N., Recio, A., Narayan, S., and Robles, L. (1997). "Basilar-membrane responses to tones at the base of the chinchilla cochlea," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 2151-2163.
24. Shanks, J. E., Wilson, R. H., Larson, V., and Williams, D. (2002). "Speech recognition performance of patients with sensorineural hearing loss under unaided and aided conditions using linear and compression hearing aids," Ear Hear. 23, 280-290.
25. Stockley, K. B., and Green, W. B. (2000). "Interlist equivalency of the Northwestern University Auditory Test No. 6 in quiet and in noise with adult hearing-impaired individuals," J. Am. Acad. Audiol 11, 91-96.
26. Studebaker, G. A. (1985). "A 'rationalized' arcsine transform," J. Speech Hear. Res. 28, 455-462.
27. Studebaker, G. A., Gilmore, C., and Sherbecoe, R. L. (1993a). "Performance-intensity functions at absolute and masked thresholds," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 3418-3421.
28. Studebaker, G. A., Sherbecoe, R. L., and Gilmore, C. (1993b). "Frequency-importance and transfer functions for the Auditec of St. Louis recordings of the NU-6 word test," J. Speech Hear. Res. 36, 799-807.
29. Studebaker, G. A., Sherbecoe, R. L., McDaniel, D. M., and Gwaltney, C. A. (1999). "Monosyllabic word recognition at higher-than-normal speech and noise levels," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 2431-2444.
30. Tillman, T. W., and Carhart, R. (1966). "An expanded test for speech discrimination utilizing CNC monosyllabic words: Northwestern University Auditory Test No. 6," Technical Report No. SAM-TR-66-55, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, TX, pp. 1-12.
31. Turner, C., and Brus, S. L. (2001). "Providing low- and mid-frequency speech information to listeners with sensorineural hearing loss," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2999-3006.
32. Wilson, R. H., Bell, T. S., and Koslowski, J. A. (2003). "Learning effects associated with repeated word-recognition measures using sentence materials," J. Rehabil. Res. Dev. 40, 329-336.
33. Yates, G. (1990). "Basilar-membrane nonlinearity and its influence on auditory nerve rate-intensity functions," Hear. Res. 50, 145-162.