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Original Article

Speech Recognition and Just-Follow-Conversation Tasks for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners with Different Maskers

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Pages 165-176 | Received 21 Dec 1992, Accepted 21 Oct 1993, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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