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How we do it: The Dutch functional hearing-screening tests by telephone and internet by Smits, C., Merkus, P., Houtgast, T.

“…Keypoints • The Dutch National Hearing Test is a reliable and very successful functional hearing–screening test by telephone. An internet version of the…”
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Relations between psychophysical measures of spatial hearing and self-reported spatial-hearing abilities by Van Esch, T.E.M., Lutman, M.E., Vormann, M., Lyzenga, J., Hällgren, M., Larsby, B., Athalye, S.P., Houtgast, T., Kollmeier, B., Dreschler, W.A.

“…Abstract Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate how well the virtual psychophysical measures of spatial hearing from the preliminary…”
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Frequency selectivity in amplitude-modulation detection by HOUTGAST, T

“…For a broadband noise carrier, the modulation detection threshold for sinusoidal amplitude modulation (the test modulation) is measured in the presence of an…”
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A speech enhancement scheme incorporating spectral expansion evaluated with simulated loss of frequency selectivity by Lyzenga, J, Festen, J M, Houtgast, T

“…Hearing-impaired listeners often suffer from supra-threshold speech perception deficits. One such deficit is reduced frequency selectivity. We applied a speech…”
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A review of the MTF concept in room acoustics and its use for estimating speech intelligibility in auditoria by HOUTGAST, T, STEENEKEN, H. J. M

“…The concept of the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) can successfully be applied to evaluate the quality of speech transmission from a talker to a listener in…”
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Relations between intelligibility of narrow-band speech and auditory functions, both in the 1-kHz frequency region by Noordhoek, I M, Houtgast, T, Festen, J M

“…Relations between perception of suprathreshold speech and auditory functions were examined in 24 hearing-impaired listeners and 12 normal-hearing listeners…”
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A physical method for measuring speech-transmission quality by Steeneken, H J, Houtgast, T

“…A physical method for measuring the quality of speech-transmission channels has been developed. Essentially, the method represents an extension of the…”
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Auditory-filter characteristics derived from direct-masking data and pulsation-threshold data with a rippled-noise masker by Houtgast, T

“…The masker was ’’rippled noise,’’with a power spectrum (intensity on a linear frequency scale) shaped according to a sinusoidal function. The test signal was a…”
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Psychophysical evidence for lateral inhibition in hearing by Houtgast, T

“…Although there are some indications of the possible role of lateral inhibition in hearing, there has been no clear demonstration of it in psychophysical…”
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Results From the Dutch Speech-in-Noise Screening Test by Telephone by Smits, Cas, Houtgast, Tammo

“…OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study was to implement a previously developed automatic speech-in-noise screening test by telephone (), introduce it nationwide…”
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Development and validation of an automatic speech-in-noise screening test by telephone by Smits, Cas, Kapteyn, Theo S., Houtgast, Tammo

“…To meet the need for an objective self-test for hearing screening, a new Dutch speech-in-noise test was developed. Digit triplets were used as speech material…”
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Subharmonic pitches of a pure tone at low S/N ratio by Houtgast, T

“…2AFC scores were obtained on 50 untrained subjects who had to respond to a 3% increment or decrement of the fundamental frequency of two successive signals…”
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On the significance of phase in the short term Fourier spectrum for speech intelligibility by Kazama, Michiko, Gotoh, Satoru, Tohyama, Mikio, Houtgast, Tammo

“…This paper investigates the significance of the magnitude or the phase in the short term Fourier spectrum for speech intelligibility as a function of the…”
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Auditory distance perception in rooms by Bronkhorst, Adelbert W, Houtgast, Tammo

“…The perceived distance of a sound source in a room has been shown to depend on the ratio of the energies of direct and reflected sound. Although this…”
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Method for the selection of sentence materials for efficient measurement of the speech reception threshold by Versfeld, N J, Daalder, L, Festen, J M, Houtgast, T

“…A method is described to select sentence materials for efficient measurement of the speech reception threshold (SRT). The first part of the paper addresses the…”
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Quantifying the intelligibility of speech in noise for non-native listeners by van Wijngaarden, Sander J, Steeneken, Herman J M, Houtgast, Tammo

“…When listening to languages learned at a later age, speech intelligibility is generally lower than when listening to one's native language. The main purpose of…”
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Spectral sharpness and vowel dissimilarity by VAN VEEN, T. M, HOUTGAST, T

“…The effect of sharpening or smoothing the spectral envelopes of synthetic vowel-like sounds on the dissimilarities perceived among these sounds was…”
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Mutual dependence of the octave-band weights in predicting speech intelligibility by Steeneken, Herman J.M, Houtgast, Tammo

“…Current objective measures for predicting the intelligibility of speech by an index assume that this can be obtained by simple addition of the contributions of…”
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Quantifying the intelligibility of speech in noise for non-native talkers by van Wijngaarden, Sander J, Steeneken, Herman J M, Houtgast, Tammo

“…The intelligibility of speech pronounced by non-native talkers is generally lower than speech pronounced by native talkers, especially under adverse…”
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Validation of the revised STIr method by Steeneken, Herman J M, Houtgast, Tammo

“…The revised model for the speech transmission index (STIr, Speech Communication 28 [1999] 109) was validated with an independent set of 68 test conditions. For…”
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