The influence of age, hearing, and working memory on the speech comprehension benefit derived from an automatic speech recognition system

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 262-272

  Zekveld, Adriana A ^a   Kramer, Sophia E ^a   Kessens, Judith M ^b   Vlaming, Marcel S M G ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEAFNESS; HEARING AID; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69049115108     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181987063     Document Type: Article

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