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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2008 Dec;29(6):907–922. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31818246f6

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Distribution of levels for a typical female talker recorded at Cambridge. The abscissa shows the center frequency of the 2-ERBN-wide analysis band. The ordinate shows relative level in dB. The dashed line shows the relative root-mean-square (RMS) level in each band, scaled so that the level of the band with the highest level is set to 0 dB. This line indicates the spectral shape of the speech for that specific talker. The solid lines with circles show “equal-exceedance contours” (EECs); see text for details.