Development and evaluation of Polish digit triplet test for auditory screening

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 307-316

  Ozimek, Edward ^a   Kutzner, Dariusz ^a   Sek, Aleksander ^a   Wicher, Andrzej ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Auditory screening; Digit triplet; Intelligibility function; Speech intelligibility; Speech reception threshold

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TESTING;

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES; AUDITORY SCREENING; DATA CHARACTERIZING; DIGIT TRIPLET; INTELLIGIBILITY FUNCTION; RECORDING PROCEDURES; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH-RECEPTION-THRESHOLD; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TRIPLET TESTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 59649105933     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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