The speech intelligibility index: What is it and what's it good for?

Hearing Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 10-17

  Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENT; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROPHONE; NOISE; NOMENCLATURE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STANDARD; THEORY;

EID: 8744292970     PISSN: 07457472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00025572-200410000-00003     Document Type: Article

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