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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 133, Issue 5, Pages 3004-3015Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.4798667
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Following previous work [Smits and Festen. (2011). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 2987-2998] involving the interpretation of speech reception threshold (SRT) data in steady-state noise, the present study considers fluctuating noise. Whereas the SIIsteady function [i.e., the speech intelligibility index (SII) against SNR in steady-state noise] can be approximated by a simple linear function going from 0 to 1 between SNR = 15 dB to + 15 dB, the SIIfluc function is a function over a broader range than 30 dB and its maximum lies at a SNR higher than + 15 dB. The difference in shape between the SIIsteady and SIIfluc functions has several implications. It predicts a reduction in fluctuating masker benefit (FMB), or even a negative FMB, for higher SNRs for normal-hearing listeners. Experimental data confirm this prediction. Much of the reduction in FMB for hearing-impaired listeners may be attributed to the higher SRTs in steady-state noise for these listeners. (C) 2013 Acoustical Society of America.
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