Table 2.
Consonant-recognition scores (in rau) for individual HI participants for low-pass-filtered speech at five cutoff frequencies.
| Low-pass-filter cutoff frequency (kHz) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 5.6 | |
| Hearing impaired | |||||
| 1 | 76.4 | 81.5 | 80.0 | 84.3 | 82.6 |
| 2 | 73.5 | 78.4 | 75.9 | 75.4 | 79.4 |
| 3 | 66.6 | 69.3 | 67.9 | 69.8 | 68.9 |
| 4 | 65.3 | 70.7 | 69.3 | 70.2 | 75.4 |
| 5 | 77.4 | 76.9 | 78.4 | 78.4 | 78.9 |
| 6 | 80.5 | 82.1 | 81.0 | 86.6 | 91.6 |
| 7 | 74.5 | 75.4 | 80.0 | 81.0 | 82.1 |
| 8 | 72.5 | 69.8 | 74.0 | 75.9 | 73.0 |
| 9 | 69.8 | 72.5 | 75.4 | 75.9 | 74.9 |
| 10 | 67.9 | 68.4 | 76.4 | 75.4 | 76.9 |
| 11 | 77.9 | 78.9 | 83.2 | 86.6 | 92.3 |
| 12 | 61.8 | 69.8 | 72.1 | 73.5 | 74.0 |
| 13 | 73.0 | 74.9 | 75.9 | 75.9 | 78.4 |
| 14 | 77.9 | 82.1 | 84.9 | 87.2 | 89.7 |
| 15 | 75.9 | 75.9 | 80.0 | 79.4 | 86.0 |
| 16 | 74.9 | 80.0 | 81.5 | 82.6 | 88.4 |
Note. Speech was spectrally shaped with individualized (NAL-R) gainfrequency responses and presented in quiet. For each participant, the highest score is shown in boldface type