Audibility-based predictions of speech recognition for children and adults with normal hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4070-4081

  McCreery, Ryan W ^a   Stelmachowicz, Patricia G ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; NORMAL HEARING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING;

BANDWIDTH; FORECASTING; FREQUENCY BANDS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858299692     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3658476     Document Type: Article

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