A predictive model of speech intelligibility in noise for normal and hearing-impaired listeners wearing hearing protectors

38th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2009, INTER-NOISE 2009

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 3425-3433

  Giguère, Christian ^a   Laroche, Chantal ^a   Vaillancourt, Véronique ^a   Soli, Sigfrid D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION FACTORS; DISTORTION EFFECTS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING PROTECTION DEVICES; HEARING PROTECTORS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; NOISE FIELDS; NOISE LEVELS; OPTIMAL SELECTION; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS;

EAR PROTECTORS; EXHIBITIONS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITION;

EID: 84869992887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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