Maximizing audibility and speech recognition with nonlinear frequency compression by estimating audible bandwidth

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mc Creery, Ryan W ^a   Brennan, Marc A ^a   Hoover, Brenda ^a   Kopun, Judy ^a   Stelmachowicz, Patricia G ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875225017     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31826d0beb     Document Type: Article

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