Publications by authors named "T Beckenbauer"
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- Four word lists of a German Speech Intelligibility Test were recorded at two volumes (60 dB and 75 dB SPL) and tested with 20 participants using earphones.
- Results showed better speech discrimination at 60 dB SPL due to a favorable consonant-vowel intensity ratio while the higher volume led to an increase in fundamental frequency.
- Both recordings were perceived as equally loud at 75 dB SPL, but calculations indicated higher loudness in the 75 dB SPL recordings.
The best method for objectively measuring the level of running speech has not yet been established. In the present study, subjective and objective measures of the level of sentence pairs were compared. Psychoacoustic judgments of the loudness of ten sentence pairs were made by ten listeners.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisturbances of communication in noisy environments may be identified sooner in patients with sensorineural hearing loss when speech audiometry is performed using fluctuating rather than stationary background noises. In the present study, the factors determining the loudness of fluctuating noises were examined using psychoacoustical procedures. The results indicated that loudness of fluctuating noises was best represented by the same percentile loudness N15 or percentile level L15.
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