The effect of compression speed on intelligibility: Simulated hearing-aid processing with and without original temporal fine structure information

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1592-1601

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   King, Andrew ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE COMPRESSION; CHANNEL BANDWIDTH; COMPRESSION SPEED; HEARING LOSS; MULTI-CHANNEL; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OPTIMAL COMPRESSION; SLOW COMPRESSION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

BENCHMARKING; HEARING AIDS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEED; VOCODERS;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866302931     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742719     Document Type: Article

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