Assessment of speech intelligibility in noise with the hearing in noise test

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 356-361

  Soli, Sigfrid D ^a   Wong, Lena L N ^b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEARING TEST; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RATE;

AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 47349085900     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020801895136     Document Type: Review

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