Speech understanding in quiet and in noise with the bone-anchored hearing aids Baha® Compact and Baha Divino™

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 829-835

  Kompis, Martin ^a,b   Krebs, Martin ^a   Häusler, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Baha Divino ; Baha Compact; Conductive hearing loss; Directional microphone noise suppression; Speech recognition threshold; Speech understanding in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548305287     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480601008408     Document Type: Article

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