A Transparent Mask and Clear Speech Benefit Speech Intelligibility in Individuals With Hearing Loss.
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the impacts of a surgical mask and a transparent mask on audio-only and audiovisual speech intelligibility in noise (i.e., 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio) in individuals with mild-toprofound hearing loss. The study also examined if individuals with hea...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 11; pp. 4558 - 4575 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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