Extended speech intelligibility index for the prediction of the speech reception threshold in fluctuating noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3988-3997

  Rhebergen, Koenraad S ^a   Versfeld, Niek J ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; DATA REDUCTION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FLUCTUATING NOISE; NOISE MASKERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH RECEPTION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33845367670     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2358008     Document Type: Article

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