Multichannel compression hearing aids: Effect of channel bandwidth on consonant and vowel identification by hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1598-1606

  Strelcyk, Olaf ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Rodriguez, Joyce ^a   Kalluri, Sridhar ^a   Edwards, Brent ^a  

^a Starkey Hearing Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BANDWIDTH; COMPRESSION SYSTEM; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MULTICHANNEL; NARROW CHANNEL; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE;

ACOUSTIC BULK WAVE DEVICES; AUDITION; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

LINGUISTICS;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874906836     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789894     Document Type: Article

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