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Proportional frequency compression of speech for listeners with sensorineural hearing loss

Turner et al., 1999

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3491430557661723383
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Turner C
Hurtig R
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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This study examined proportional frequency compression as a strategy for improving speech recognition in listeners with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. This method of frequency compression preserved the ratios between the frequencies of the components of …
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