The effect of speech presentation level on acceptance of background noise in listeners with normal hearing

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-146

  Franklin Jr , Clifford A ^a   Thelin, James W ^b   Nabelek, Anna K ^b   Burchfield, Samuel B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptable noise level; Background noise level; Most comfortable listening level; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION; HEARING; SPEECH; ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747448644     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.2.6     Document Type: Article

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