Effects of audibility and multichannel wide dynamic range compression on consonant recognition for listeners with severe hearing loss

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 494-504

  Davies Venn, Evelyn ^a   Souza, Pamela ^a,b   Brennan, Marc ^a   Stecker, G Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349106883     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181aec5bc     Document Type: Article

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