Developing a speech intelligibility test based on measuring speech reception thresholds in noise for English and Finnish

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1742-1750

  Vainio, Martti ^a   Suni, Antti ^a   Järveläinen, Hanna ^b   Järvikivi, Juhani ^c   Mattila, Ville Veikko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LEXICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT); STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL POWER;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MOBILE PHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 24944526637     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1993129     Document Type: Article

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