Acceptable range of speech level for both young and aged listeners in reverberant and quiet sound fields

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1616-1623

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

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; GAIN CONTROL; REVERBERATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED LISTENERS; HEARING LEVELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 35248874402     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2766780     Document Type: Article

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