The effect on speech intelligibility of varying compression time constants in a digital hearing aid.

The identification of nonsense syllables in quiet and in three types of background (babble, cafeteria and single female speaker) was measured using four hearing aid compression algorithms differing in attack and release time constants, and using linear amplification. The speech level was always 65 d...

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Published in:International Journal of Audiology Vol. 43; no. 7; pp. 399 - 410
Main Authors: Moore BCJ, Stainsby TH, Alcántara JI, Kühnel V
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2004
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