Compression-dependent differences in hearing aid gain between speech and nonspeech input signals

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 409-422

  Henning, Rebecca Warner ^b   Bentler, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; COMPRESSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MODULATION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 28844509382     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-200508000-00004     Document Type: Article

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