The effect on speech intelligibility of varying compression time constants in a digital hearing aid

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 399-409

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Stainsby, Thomas H ^a   Alcántara, José I ^a   Kühnel, Volker ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b Phonak Hearing Instruments AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compression; Hearing aids; Speech intelligibility; Time constants

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544332784     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020400050051     Document Type: Article

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