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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2015 Sep-Oct;36(5):505–516. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000173

Table 7.

Estimate of dB SNR corresponding to average quality rating of 0.5 and corresponding dB benefit (relative to the unprocessed condition) shown for six ideal binary mask processing conditions.

Condition dB SNR for 0.5
quality rating
Effective dB
improvement
Error (%) Atten (dB)
0 100 <-6.0 >14.9
0 10 0.8 8.1
10 100 0.8 8.1
10 10 3.6 5.3
30 100 9.1 −0.2
30 10 7.6 1.3
Unp Unp 8.9 --