The digits-in-noise test: Assessing auditory speech recognition abilities in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1693-1706

  Smits, Cas ^a   Theo Goverts, S ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEARING LOSS; LEARNING EFFECTS; LOW-PASS; MALE SPEAKERS; RECOGNITION ABILITIES; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD;

AUDITION; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

TESTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874908389     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789933     Document Type: Article

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