The effects of high presentation levels on consonant feature transmission

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1719-1729

  Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a   Trine, Timothy D ^b   Ohde, Ralph N ^a  

^a Medical Center East   (United States)

^b Starkey Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; NEUROLOGY;

CONSONANT RECOGNITION; SONORANCE; VOICING FEATURES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 24944578530     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1993128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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