Effect of spatial separation, extended bandwidth, and compression speed on intelligibility in a competing-speech task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 360-371

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Füllgrabe, Christian ^a   Stone, Michael A ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL HEARING; CO-LOCATED; COMPRESSION SPEED; HEARING LOSS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INTERFERING SOUNDS; OFFLINE; SLOW COMPRESSION; SPATIAL SEPARATION; TARGET SPEECH;

AUDITION; BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; HEARING DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; REHABILITATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 77955212480     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3436533     Document Type: Article

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