Internationally comparable screening tests for listening in noise in several European languages: The German digit triplet test as an optimization prototype

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 697-707

  Zokoll, Melanie A ^a   Wagener, Kirsten C ^b   Brand, Thomas ^a   Buschermöhle, Michael ^c   Kollmeier, Birger ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Hoerzentrum Oldenburg GmbH   (Germany)

^c HörTech GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digit triplet test; HearCom; Hearing screening; Number recognition test; Speech in noise test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NOISE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864855884     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2012.690078     Document Type: Review

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