Effects of aging on word intelligibility and listening difficulty in various reverberant fields

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2915-2922

  Sato, Hayato ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^b   Morimoto, Masayuki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

LISTENING TESTS; REVERBERANT FIELDS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247876110     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2713715     Document Type: Article

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