Table 1.

Consonant-recognition scores (in rau) for individual HI and NH 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	82.6	86.6	83.7	90.3	87.8
2	77.9	79.4	81.0	77.4	80.0
3	66.2	72.1	74.0	75.4	73.0
4	78.9	80.5	79.4	84.3	80.0
5	71.6	72.5	77.4	77.9	80.5
6	81.5	79.4	86.0	91.6	88.4
7	83.2	83.2	84.3	87.2	84.3
8	67.9	68.4	69.2	73.5	74.5
9	76.4	75.9	77.9	80.0	84.3
10	68.9	71.6	71.6	74.5	74.5
11	81.0	81.5	81.5	87.8	87.8
12	62.2	70.7	70.7	72.5	71.1
13	65.7	75.4	75.4	72.5	74.5
14	76.4	81.4	84.9	87.8	89.0
15	77.4	80.5	83.7	82.1	86.0
16	80.0	75.9	83.2	82.6	85.4
Normal hearing
1	74.0	76.9	82.1	90.9	87.2
2	73.0	76.4	77.9	81.5	86.0
3	71.1	77.4	79.4	76.4	77.4
4	69.8	76.4	78.4	80.5	80.5
5	70.7	74.0	71.1	79.4	77.9
6	60.9	67.5	67.1	69.3	72.1
7	63.5	68.9	72.5	73.0	77.4
8	57.1	64.0	66.6	67.9	67.9
9	65.3	74.9	77.4	80.5	81.0
10	70.2	75.9	83.7	81.5	87.2
11	67.5	73.5	74.9	78.4	79.4
12	65.3	72.1	76.7	77.4	78.9
13	67.1	71.1	72.5	72.5	78.4
14	77.4	75.9	84.9	83.7	86.0
15	60.5	67.1	64.8	68.4	78.4
16	66.2	70.2	77.9	80.0	82.6
17	69.3	73.5	73.0	78.4	77.9
18	76.4	80.5	80.5	77.4	80.5

Note. Speech was spectrally shaped with a nonindividualized gain-frequency response. For each participant, the highest score is shown in boldface type.