Comparison of different short-term speech intelligibility index procedures in fluctuating noise for listeners with normal and impaired hearing

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 442-456

  Meyer, Ralf Michael ^a   Brand, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; IMPAIRED HEARINGS; LEVEL FLUCTUATION; MODEL EXTENSIONS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; TEMPORAL INFORMATION;

AUDITION; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84878269656     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918625     Document Type: Article

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