Improving Mobile Phone Speech Recognition by Personalized Amplification: Application in People with Normal Hearing and Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2017, Pages e85-e92

  Kam, Anna Chi Shan ^a,b   Sung, John Ka Keung ^b   Lee, Tan ^c   Wong, Terence Ka Cheong ^b   Van Hasselt, Andrew ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Mobile phone; Personalized amplification; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; NOISE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL PHONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NOISE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014528115     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000371     Document Type: Article

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