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Original Article

The effect of audibility, signal-to-noise ratio, and temporal speech cues on the benefit from fast-acting compression in modulated noise

El efecto de la audibilidad, de la relación señal/ruido y de las claves temporales del lenguaje sobre el beneficio de la compresión de acción rápida en ruido modulado

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Pages 421-433 | Received 09 Jul 2004, Published online: 07 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The objective of the experiment was to investigate three aspects that might contribute to the benefit of fast-acting compression seen in normal-hearing listeners. Six normal-hearing listeners were tested with speech recognition in a fully modulated noise (FUM) either through a fast-acting compressor or through linear amplification. In the first experiment, three different presentation levels of the FUM noise (15, 30, and 45 dB SL) were tested. The second experiment manipulated the control signal of the compressor independently of the audio input signal at four signal-to-noise ratios (−15, −10, −5, and 0 dB). A signal correlated noise version of the speech signal was tested in the third experiment at three speech-to-noise ratios (−20, −15 and −10 dB). Results showed that performance was better with compression than with linear amplification through all of the tested conditions at least when the signal-to-noise ratio was negative. The results suggest that other aspects of the hearing impairment than those simulated here are involved in the degraded performance seen for some hearing-impaired listeners with fast-acting compression.

Abbreviations
BM=

Basilar membrane

FUM=

Fully modulated noise

ROM=

Release of masking

SCN=

Signal correlated noise

SM=

modulated noise

SNR=

Signal-to-noise ratio

SNRT=

ratio at threshold

Abbreviations
BM=

Basilar membrane

FUM=

Fully modulated noise

ROM=

Release of masking

SCN=

Signal correlated noise

SM=

modulated noise

SNR=

Signal-to-noise ratio

SNRT=

ratio at threshold

Sumario

El objetivo de este experimento fue investigar tres aspectos que podrían contribuir al beneficio de la compresión de acción rápida observados en sujetos normo-oyentes. Se evaluó a seis normo-oyentes utilizando la prueba de reconocimiento de lenguaje en un ruido totalmente modulado (FUM), por medio de un compresor de acción rápida o por medio de amplificación lineal. En el primer experimento, se evaluaron tres diferentes niveles de presentación del ruido FUM (15, 30 y 45 dB SL). El segundo experimento manipuló la señal de control del compresor independientemente de la señal de audio de ingreso a cuatro tasas de señal/ruido (−15, 10, −5 y 0 dB). Con relación a la señal del lenguaje, se evaluó en el tercer experimento una versión de la señal correlacionada con el ruido para tres tasas de señal/ruido (−20, −15 y −10 dB). Los resultados mostraron que el desempeño fue mejor con compresión que con amplificación lineal, en todas las condiciones de evaluación, a1 menos cuando la tasa señal/ruido era negativa. Los resultados sugieren que hay aspectos de la hipoacusia, diferentes de los aquí simulados, que están relacionados con la disminución del desempeño que muestran algunos sujetos hipoacúsicos con la compresión de acción rápida.

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