A comparison of recognition performances in speech-spectrum noise by listeners with normal hearing on PB-50, CID W-22, NU-6, W-1 spondaic words, and monosyllabic digits spoken by the same speaker

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 496-506

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b   McArdle, Rachel ^b,c   Roberts, Heidi ^c  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Hearing loss; Speech perception; Word recognition in multitalker babble

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149091164     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.19.6.5     Document Type: Article

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