Development of the Cantonese speech intelligibility index

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2350-2361

  Wong, Lena L N ^a   Ho, Amy H S ^a,c   Chua, Elizabeth W W ^a,d   Soli, Sigfrid D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c St Teresa's Hospital Hearing and Speech Centre   (Hong Kong)

^d Starkey (HK) Hearing and Speech Centre Ltd

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; LOW PASS FILTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CANTONESE VERSION OF THE HEARING IN NOISE TEST (CHINT); SPEECH ASSESSMENTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX (SII); SPEECH SPECTRUM;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34047252327     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2431338     Document Type: Article

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