Relationship between masking release in fluctuating maskers and speech reception thresholds in stationary noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1655-1666

  Christiansen, Claus ^a   Dau, Torsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGH-PASS; LOW-PASS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PROCESSING CONDITION; RECOGNITION THRESHOLD; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; STATIONARY NOISE; TEMPORAL PROCESSING;

HIGH PASS FILTERS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866303447     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742732     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Alcántara, J. L., Moore, B. C. J., Kühnel, V., and Launer, S. (2003). Evaluation of the noise reduction system in a commercial digital hearing aid., Int. J. Audiol. 42, 34-42. 10.3109/14992020309056083
2. Amos, N. E., and Humes, L. E. (2007). Contribution of high frequencies to speech recognition in quiet and noise in listeners with varying degrees of high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss., J. Speech. Lang. Hear. Res. 50, 819-834. 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/057)
3. ANSI (1997). ANSI S3.5-1997, Methods for calculation of the speech intelligibility index (American National Standards Institute, New York).
4. Bacon, S. P., Opie, J. M., and Montoya, D. Y. (1998). The effects of hearing loss and noise masking on the masking release for speech in temporally complex backgrounds., J. Speech. Lang. Hear. Res. 41, 549-563.
5. Baer, T., and Moore, B. (1993). Effects of spectral smearing on the intelligibility of sentences in noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1229-1241. 10.1121/1.408176
6. Baer, T., and Moore, B. C. (1994). Effects of spectral smearing on the intelligibility of sentences in the presence of interfering speech., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 2277-2280. 10.1121/1.408640
7. Bernstein, J. G. W., and Brungart, D. S. (2011). Effects of spectral smearing and temporal fine-structure distortion on the fluctuating-masker benefit for speech at a fixed signal-to-noise ratio., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 473-488. 10.1121/1.3589440
8. Bernstein, J. G. W., and Grant, K. W. (2009). Auditory and auditory-visual intelligibility of speech in fluctuating maskers for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 3358-3372. 10.1121/1.3110132
9. Calandruccio, L., Dhar, S., and Bradlow, A. R. (2010). Speech-on-speech masking with variable access to the linguistic content of the masker speech., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 860-869. 10.1121/1.3458857
10. Ching, T. Y., Dillon, H., and Byrne, D. (1998). Speech recognition of hearing-impaired listeners: Predictions from audibility and the limited role of high-frequency amplification., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 1128-1140. 10.1121/1.421224
11. Desloge, J. G., Reed, C. M., Braida, L. D., Perez, Z. D., and Delhorne, L. A. (2010). Speech reception by listeners with real and simulated hearing impairment: Effects of continuous and interrupted noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 342-359. 10.1121/1.3436522
12. Dubno, J. R., Horwitz, A. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2003). Recovery from prior stimulation: Masking of speech by interrupted noise for younger and older adults with normal hearing., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 2084-2094. 10.1121/1.1555611
13. Duquesnoy, A. J., and Plomp, R. (1983). The effect of a hearing aid on the speech-reception threshold of hearing-impaired listeners in quiet and in noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 73, 2166-2173. 10.1121/1.389540
14. Festen, J. M., and Plomp, R. (1990). Effects of fluctuating noise and interfering speech on the speech-reception threshold for impaired and normal hearing. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 1725-1736. 10.1121/1.400247
15. Füllgrabe, C., Berthommier, F., and Lorenzi, C. (2006). Masking release for consonant features in temporally fluctuating background noise., Hear. Res. 211, 74-84. 10.1016/j.heares.2005.09.001
16. George, E. L. J., Festen, J. M., and Houtgast, T. (2006). Factors affecting masking release for speech in modulated noise for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 2295-2311. 10.1121/1.2266530
17. Glasberg, B. R., and Moore, B. C. (1990). Derivation of auditory filter shapes from notched-noise data., Hear. Res 47, 103-138. 10.1016/0378-5955(90) 90170-T
18. Gustafsson, H. A., and Arlinger, S. D. (1994). Masking of speech by amplitude-modulated noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 518-529. 10.1121/1.408346
19. Halpin, C., and Rauch, S. D. (2009). Hearing aids and cochlear damage: The case against fitting the pure tone audiogram., Otolaryngol.-Head Neck Surg. 140, 629-632. 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.12.020
20. Hällgren, M., Larsby, B., Lyxell, B., and Arlinger, S. (2005). Speech understanding in quiet and noise, with and without hearing aids., Int. J. Audiol. 44, 574-583. 10.1080/14992020500190011
21. Hogan, C. A., and Turner, C. W. (1998). High-frequency audibility: benefits for hearing-impaired listeners., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 432-441. 10.1121/1.423247
22. Holube, I., Fredelake, S., Vlaming, M., and Kollmeier, B. (2010). Development and analysis of an International Speech Test Signal (ISTS)., Int. J. Audiol. 49, 891-903. 10.3109/14992027.2010.506889
23. Hopkins, K., Moore, B. C. J., and Stone, M. A. (2008). Effects of moderate cochlear hearing loss on the ability to benefit from temporal fine structure information in speech., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 1140-1153. 10.1121/1.2824018
24. Hou, Z., and Pavlovic, C. V. (1994). Effects of temporal smearing on temporal resolution, frequency selectivity, and speech intelligibility., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 1325-1340. 10.1121/1.410279
25. Houtgast, T., and Festen, J. M. (2008). On the auditory and cognitive functions that may explain an individual's elevation of the speech reception threshold in noise., Int. J. Audiol. 47, 287-295. 10.1080/14992020802127109
26. Houtsma, A. J. M., and Smurzynski, J. (1990). Pitch identification and discrimination for complex tones with many harmonics., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 304-310. 10.1121/1.399297
27. Lorenzi, C., Gilbert, G., Carn, H., Garnier, S., and Moore, B. C. J. (2006a). Speech perception problems of the hearing impaired reflect inability to use temporal fine structure., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103, 18866-18869. 10.1073/pnas.0607364103
28. Lorenzi, C., Husson, M., Ardoint, M., and Debruille, X. (2006b). Speech masking release in listeners with flat hearing loss: effects of masker fluctuation rate on identification scores and phonetic feature reception., Int. J. Audiol. 45, 487-495. 10.1080/14992020600753213
29. Metselaar, M., Maat, B., Krijnen, P., Verschuure, H., Dreschler, W., and Feenstra, L. (2008). Comparison of speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise after hearing aid fitting according to a purely prescriptive and a comparative fitting procedure., Eur. Arch. Otorhinolaryngol. 265, 1113-1120. 10.1007/s00405-008-0596-x
30. Micheyl, C., and Oxenham, A. J. (2007). Across-frequency pitch discrimination interference between complex tones containing resolved harmonics., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 1621-1631. 10.1121/1.2431334
31. Moore, B. C. J., Peters, R. W., and Stone, M. A. (1999). Benefits of linear amplification and multichannel compression for speech comprehension in backgrounds with spectral and temporal dips., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 400-411. 10.1121/1.424571
32. Nelson, P. B., and Jin, S.-H. (2004). Factors affecting speech understanding in gated interference: Cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 2286-2294. 10.1121/1.1703538
33. Nielsen, J. B., and Dau, T. (2009). Development of a Danish speech intelligibility test., Int. J. Audiol. 48, 729-741. 10.1080/14992020903019312
34. Nilsson, M., Soli, S. D., and Sullivan, J. A. (1994). Development of the hearing in noise test for the measurement of speech reception thresholds in quiet and in noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 1085-1099. 10.1121/1.408469
35. Oxenham, A. J., and Simonson, A. M. (2009). Masking release for low- and high-pass-filtered speech in the presence of noise and single-talker interference., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 457-468. 10.1121/1.3021299
36. Palmer, A., and Russell, I. (1986). Phase-locking in the cochlear nerve of the guinea-pig and its relation to the receptor potential of inner hair-cells., Hear. Res. 24, 1-15. 10.1016/0378-5955(86)90002-X
37. Patterson, R. D., Nimmo-Smith, I., Holdsworth, J., and Rice, P. (1987). An efficient auditory filterbank based on the gammatone function., in Proceedings of the Meeting of the IOC Speech Group on Auditory Modelling at RSRE, December 14-15.
38. Peters, R. W., Moore, B. C., and Baer, T. (1998). Speech reception thresholds in noise with and without spectral and temporal dips for hearing-impaired and normally hearing people., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 577-587. 10.1121/1.421128
39. Plomp, R. (1978). Auditory handicap of hearing impairment and the limited benefit of hearing aids., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63, 533-549. 10.1121/1.381753
40. Qin, M. K., and Oxenham, A. J. (2003). Effects of simulated cochlear-implant processing on speech reception in fluctuating maskers., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 446-454. 10.1121/1.1579009
41. Rankovic, C. M. (1991). An application of the articulation index to hearing aid fitting., J. Speech. Hear. Res. 34, 391-402.
42. Rhebergen, K. S., Versfeld, N. J., and Dreschler, W. A. (2006). Extended speech intelligibility index for the prediction of the speech reception threshold in fluctuating noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3988-3997. 10.1121/1.2358008
43. Santurette, S., and Dau, T. (2011). The role of temporal fine structure information for the low pitch of high-frequency complex tones., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129, 282-292. 10.1121/1.3518718
44. Shackleton, T. M., and Carlyon, R. P. (1994). The role of resolved and unresolved harmonics in pitch perception and frequency modulation discrimination., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 3529-3540. 10.1121/1.409970
45. Shanks, J. E., Wilson, R. H., Larson, V., and Williams, D. (2002). Speech recognition performance of patients with sensorineural hearing loss under unaided and aided conditions using linear and compression hearing aids., Ear. Hear. 23, 280-290. 10.1097/00003446-200208000-00003
46. Strelcyk, O., and Dau, T. (2009). Relations between frequency selectivity, temporal fine-structure processing, and speech reception in impaired hearing., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 3328-3345. 10.1121/1.3097469
47. ter Keurs, M., Festen, J. M., and Plomp, R. (1993). Limited resolution of spectral contrast and hearing loss for speech in noise., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1307-1314. 10.1121/1.408158