Study of an automated procedure for a Dutch sentence test for the measurement of the speech reception threshold in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3225-3234

  Terband, Hayo ^a,b   Drullman, Rob ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES; AND VERIFICATIONS; AUTOMATED MEASUREMENTS; AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; DYNAMIC ALIGNMENTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS; SPELLING CHECKERS; SPELLING ERRORS; STATIONARY NOISES; TEST PROCEDURES;

AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; TESTING;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 56749165548     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2990706     Document Type: Article

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