Measurements and calculations on the simple up-down adaptive procedure for speech-in-noise tests

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1608-1621

  Smits, Cas ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; TELEPHONE INTERFERENCE; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

HEARING LOSS; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE;

AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TELEPHONE;

EID: 33748552072     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2221405     Document Type: Article

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