Speech communication often takes place in noisy environments; this is an urgent issue for
military personnel who must communicate in high-noise environments. The effects of noise …

Under normal conditions, human speech is remarkably robust to degradation by noise and
other distortions. However, people with hearing loss, including those with cochlear implants …

Normal-hearing older adults often experience increased difficulties understanding speech in
noise. In addition, they benefit less from amplitude fluctuations in the masker. These …

Some of the most common interfering background sounds a listener experiences are the
sounds of other talkers. In Experiment 1, recognition for natural Institute of Electrical and …

This study tested the hypothesis that the previously reported advantage of musicians over
non-musicians in understanding speech in noise arises from more efficient or robust coding …

Stone et al.[J. Acoust. Soc Am. 130, 2874–2881 (2011)], using vocoder processing, showed
that the envelope modulations of a notionally steady noise were more effective than the …

Purpose Common wisdom suggests that listening in noise poses disproportionately greater
difficulty for listeners with cochlear implants (CIs) than for peers with normal hearing (NH) …

Individuals with sensorineural hearing loss often report frustration with speech being loud
but not clear, especially in background noise. Despite advanced digital technology, hearing …

Understanding speech in noisy environments is often taken for granted; however, this task is
particularly challenging for people with cochlear hearing loss, even with hearing aids or …

The benefit in speech-recognition performance due to the compensation of a hearing loss
can vary between listeners, even if unaided performance and hearing thresholds are similar …