The effect of a hearing aid noise reduction algorithm on the acquisition of novel speech contrasts

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 707-714

  Marcoux, André M ^a   Yathiraj, Asha ^b   Côté, Isabelle ^a   Logan, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF SPEECH AND HEARING   (India)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audibility; Cross language; Digital noise reduction (DNR); Discrimination; Hearing aids; Language acquisition; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIGITAL NOISE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HINDI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33751572183     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020600944416     Document Type: Article

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