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Larsby, Birgitta,1950-Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för neuro- och inflammationsvetenskap,Medicinska fakulteten
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The influence of female versus malespeakers’ voice on speech recognitionthresholds in noise: Effects of low and high-frequency hearing impairment
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W.S. Maney & Son Ltd,2015
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https://doi.org/10.1179/2050572814Y.0000000053DOI
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Purpose: To investigate the effect of female versus male speakers’ voice on the ability to recognize speech innoise in two groups of sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners, one group with impairment at lowfrequencies and the other at high frequencies.Method: Eight participants with high-frequency hearing impairments (Hf-HI) and seven with low-frequencyhearing impairments (Lf-HI) participated. Sixteen normal hearing (NH) participants served as reference.The sentences from the hearing in noise test, read by a female or a male speaker, were presentedmonaurally with a background noise. In an adaptive procedure, the mean speech recognition threshold,for 50% correctly recognized sentences, was calculated for the female and male voice and each test subject.Results: The Hf-HI group had significantly greater difference in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) results betweenfemale and male voices. Irrespective of hearing impairment, the female voice required 2.1 dB better SNR.In addition, the NH group showed a small but significant difference in favor of the male voice.Conclusions: Results indicate that speaker gender matters for hearing impaired and NH individuals’ ability torecognize speech in noise.
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Hällgren, MathiasLinköpings universitet,Avdelningen för neuro- och inflammationsvetenskap,Medicinska fakulteten,Region Östergötland, Öron- näsa- och halskliniken US(Swepub:liu)matha79
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Nilsson, LindaLinköpings universitet,Avdelningen för neuro- och inflammationsvetenskap,Medicinska fakulteten
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McAllister, AnitaLinköpings universitet,Avdelningen för neuro- och inflammationsvetenskap,Medicinska fakulteten,CLINTEC, Division of Speech and Language Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; Speech and Language Pathology Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden(Swepub:liu)animc86
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Linköpings universitetAvdelningen för neuro- och inflammationsvetenskap
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In:Speech, Language and Hearing: W.S. Maney & Son Ltd18:2, s. 84-902050-571X
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