Perception of clear fricatives by normal-hearing and simulated hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1114-1125

  Maniwa, Kazumi ^a   Jongman, Allard ^a   Wade, Travis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Posit Science Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

PERCEPTUAL DATA; SHIFT OF ENERGY CONCENTRATION; SIMULATED HEARING; SIMULATED IMPAIRMENT;

HEARING AIDS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38849178207     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821966     Document Type: Article

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