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Frequency selectivity and speech intelligibility in noise.

P E Lyregaard
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Poor speech intelligibility in noise is a major problem for persons afflicted by a sensorineural hearing loss, and this problem is generally not alleviated by a hearing aid. For a typical hearing loss the effective signal-to-noise ratio is degraded by 10 - 15 dB, predominantly due to impoverished frequency selectivity. The critical ratio averaged over speech frequencies is a convenient measure of this component of the auditory handicap. An attempt to improve speech intelligibility in noise through dichotic combfiltering was not successful.

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Audiometry, Pure-ToneAudiometry, SpeechAuditory ThresholdHearing Loss, SensorineuralHumansPerceptual MaskingPitch PerceptionSpeech PerceptionJournal Article

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P E Lyregaard. 1982. Frequency selectivity and speech intelligibility in noise.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6955919/

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