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Effects of Slow- and Fast-Acting Compression on Hearing-Impaired Listeners' Consonant-Vowel Identification in Interrupted Noise.
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- Does the Speech Cue Profile Affect Response to Amplitude Envelope Distortion?Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
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- Adaptation to Noise in Human Speech Recognition Depends on Noise-Level Statistics and Fast Dynamic-Range Compression.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Relationship Between Working Memory, Compression, and Beamformers in Ideal Conditions.Ear and hearingArticle
- Limitations of the Envelope Difference Index as a Metric for Nonlinear Distortion in Hearing Aids.Ear and hearingArticle
- Modeling the Relationship Between Listener Factors and Envelope Fidelity: A Pooled Analysis Spanning a Decade.Ear and hearingArticle
- Perceptual Evaluation of Signal-to-Noise-Ratio-Aware Dynamic Range Compression in Hearing Aids.Trends in hearingArticle
- Effects of Source-Specific Dynamic Range Compression on Sound Quality for Individuals With Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingArticle
- A Data-driven Distance Metric for Evaluating the effects of Dynamic Range Compression in Adverse Conditions.Trends in hearingReview
- Amplitude Compression for Preventing Rollover at Above-Conversational Speech Levels.Trends in hearingArticle
- Perception of Recorded Music With Hearing Aids: Compression Differentially Affects Musical Scene Analysis and Musical Sound Quality.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
There is conflicting evidence about the relative benefit of slow- and fast-acting compression for speech intelligibility. It has been hypothesized that fast-acting compression improves audibility at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) but may distort the speech envelope at higher SNRs. The present study investigated the effects of compression with a nearly instantaneous attack time but either fast (10 ms) or slow (500 ms) release times on consonant identification in hearing-impaired listeners. Consonant-vowel speech tokens were presented at a range of presentation levels in two conditions: in the presence of interrupted noise and in quiet (with the compressor "shadow-controlled" by the corresponding mixture of speech and noise). These conditions were chosen to disentangle the effects of consonant audibility and noise-induced forward masking on speech intelligibility. A small but systematic intelligibility benefit of fast-acting compression was found in both the quiet and the noisy conditions for the lower speech levels. No detrimental effects of fast-acting compression were observed when the speech level exceeded the level of the noise. These findings suggest that fast-acting compression provides an audibility benefit in fluctuating interferers when compared with slow-acting compression while not substantially affecting the perception of consonants at higher SNRs.
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