TY  - JOUR
AU  - Henry, Belinda A.
AU  - McDermott, Hugh J.
AU  - McKay, Colette M.
AU  - James, Chris J.
AU  - Clark, Graeme M.
Y2  - 2014/05/21
Y1  - 1998
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/27518
AB  - A frequency importance function, characterising the relative contribution of different frequency bands to speech intelligibility, was determined for a CNC monosyllabic word test designed for Australian usage at the University of Melbourne. The importance function was derived from the phoneme scores of 12 normally-hearing listeners who were tested under various conditions of low-and high-pass filtering presented at signal-to-noise ratios of -8 to +6 dB, using noise which was shaped across frequency 10 match the speech spectrum. The importance function showed a dominant peak at approximately 2000 Hz, which is consistent with previously published word test importance functions. The word test, along with the importance function, will be useful in advanced hearing-aid fitting procedures and research aimed at improving speech perception.
KW  - otolaryngology
KW  - speech perception
KW  - frequency bands
T1  - A frequency importance function for a new monosyllabic word test
IS  - Australian Journal of Audiology
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
SP  - 79-86
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/27518/119500_vol11_1116.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
ER  -