Effects of noise and distortion on speech quality judgments in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1150-1164

  Arehart, Kathryn H ^a   Kates, James M ^a   Anderson, Melinda C ^a   Harvey, Lewis O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COHERENCE-BASED METRIC; HEARING-IMPAIRED; MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL-HEARING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUND; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34547645591     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2754061     Document Type: Article

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