Effect of linear frequency transposition on speech recognition and production of school-age children

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 289-305

  Auriemmo, Jane ^a   Kuk, Francis ^b   Lau, Chi ^b   Marshall, Susan ^c   Thiele, Natalie ^c   Pikora, Margaret ^c   Quick, Debra ^c   Stenger, Patricia ^c  

^a Widex USA   (United States)

^b Widex ORCA   (United States)

^c St Louis School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency transposition; Hearing aids; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DEVICE THERAPY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LINEAR FREQUENCY TRANSPOSITION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONEME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 68349116189     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.20.5.2     Document Type: Article

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