Spectral and threshold effects on recognition of speech at higher-than-normal levels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 310-320

  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; AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

LOW-FREQUENCY; MASKERS; SYLLABLES; THRESHOLD EFFECTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33745749904     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2206508     Document Type: Article

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