Comparing Binaural Pre-processing Strategies III: Speech Intelligibility of Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners

Trends in Hearing

Volumn 19, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Völker, Christoph ^a,b   Warzybok, Anna ^a,b   Ernst, Stephan M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Oldenburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

binaural signal processing schemes; hearing aids; noise reduction; speech intelligibility index; speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TEST; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017016338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23312165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2331216515618609     Document Type: Article

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