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Audibility is the degree to which something is audible.

Short items
In a review of recent studies from Indiana University, it is argued that audibility is the primary contributor to the speech-understanding difficulties of older adults in unaided listening, but that other factors, especially cognitive factors, emerge when the role of audibility has been minimized. With few exceptions, the importance of cognitive factors was revealed once the speech stimuli were made sufficiently audible.

Medium items
The factors responsible for interindividual differences in speech-understanding ability among hearing-impaired listeners are not well understood. Although audibility has been found to account for some of this variability, other factors may play a role. Other potential factors include age, hearing thresholds, speech-presentation levels, and speech audibility. These variables accounted for a greater proportion of the variance in speech-intelligibility scores than, and were not significantly correlated with, speech audibility, as quantified using a variant of the articulation index. Although the lack of statistical independence between hearing-loss onset type, hearing-loss onset age, hearing-loss duration, and age complicate and limit the interpretation of the results, these findings indicate that other variables than audibility can influence speech intelligibility in listeners with severe-to-profound high-frequency hearing loss.