https://www.selleckchem.com/products/bgb-3245-brimarafenib.html For the HI listeners, inter-listener variability in most estimated SII parameters was larger than intra-listener variability of the qBIF procedure.To examine difficulties experienced by cochlear implant (CI) users when perceiving non-native speech, intelligibility of non-native speech was compared in conditions with single and multiple alternating talkers. Compared to listeners with normal hearing, no rapid talker-dependent adaptation was observed and performance was approximately 40% lower for CI users following increased exposure in both talker conditions. Results suggest that lower performance for CI users may stem from combined effects of limited spectral resolution, which diminishes perceptible differences across accents, and limited access to talker-specific acoustic features of speech, which reduces the ability to adapt to non-native speech in a talker-dependent manner.The exact expression for the difference between the acoustic field in an attenuating Pekeris waveguide and the corresponding truncated waveguide is presented. The derivation replaces an earlier version [Evans, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 74, 193-194 (1983)] that yielded only an approximate estimate of the same difference. The theoretical simplification resulting from the finite truncation is stressed, in contrast to the infinite half-space.The first-order steerable differential arrays (FOSDAs), which have found a variety of applications in speech and audio processing, are usually designed by construction of two orthogonal dipoles using four microphones. Actually, however, three microphones are enough to construct a FOSDA by forming two dipoles with a shared microphone, which is the scheme with the minimum number of microphones and, hence, the most cost-effective. This paper studies the design and analysis of such three-element FOSDAs by using a least-squares method. In particular, the effect of the array configuration on the three-element