Speech-in-noise tests for multilingual hearing screening and diagnostics

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 175-178

  Zokoll, Melanie A ^a,b   Hochmuth, Sabine ^a,b   Warzybok, Anna ^a,b   Wagener, Kirsten C ^b,c   Buschermöhle, Michael ^b,d   Kollmeier, Birger ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Cluster of Excellence 'Hearing4all'   (Germany)

^c Hoerzentrum Oldenburg GmbH   (Germany)

^d Center of Competence HörTech GGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digit Triplet test; Hearcom; Hearing screening; Matrix test; Speech perception; Speech reception threshold (SRT); Speech in noise test

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; DIGIT TRIPLET TEST; EQUIPMENT; HEARCOM; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MATRIX TEST; METHODOLOGY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD (SRT); SPEECH-IN-NOISE TEST;

AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

DIGIT TRIPLET TEST; HEARCOM; HEARING SCREENING; MATRIX TEST; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD (SRT); SPEECH-IN-NOISE TEST;

EID: 84879455368     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(2013/12-0061)     Document Type: Article

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