Table 3.

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	46.2	49.2	46.7	54.2	55.0
2	44.1	51.3	52.5	53.8	56.3
3	38.6	45.4	49.6	49.6	51.3
4	41.6	50.4	53.3	54.6	55.4
5	42.5	50.8	51.3	52.1	51.7
6	41.2	48.3	51.7	54.6	61.4
7	41.2	50.4	53.8	53.8	56.3
8	50.0	51.3	53.8	54.2	62.2
9	42.0	45.4	48.7	49.6	52.1
10	42.9	45.4	51.7	55.9	58.8
11	49.2	52.9	55.4	66.2	68.4
12	36.5	41.2	45.4	43.7	47.5
13	42.5	45.8	48.3	50.0	47.9
14	48.7	58.0	65.3	67.5	69.3
15	46.2	52.1	55.9	58.4	59.7
16	38.6	44.6	50.8	54.6	55.4

Note. Speech was spectrally shaped with individualized (NAL-R) gain-frequency responses and presented in speech-shaped noise. For each participant, the highest score is shown in boldface type.