Effect of Probe Tube Insertion Depth on Spectral Measures of Speech

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-154

  Caldwell, Marc ^a   Souza, Pamela E ^a   Tremblay, Kelly L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

insertion depth; one third octave band; one twelfth octave band; probe tube; spectral

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EARDRUM; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICROPHONE; MIDDLE EAR; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; TUBE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EAR CANAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; PRESSURE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 33747052005     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713806292653     Document Type: Article

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