Loudness recruitment makes raised speech feel too loud even without abnormal sound perception

Evidence

Loudness recruitment, the abnormally rapid growth of loudness, can lead to a number of difficulties in everyday communication. For listeners who do not wear hearing aids, talkers often have to raise the level of their voices to be heard by a listener with SNHL. By raising the level of the voice, however, the listener may now have a perception that the speech is too loud. Recall that this phenomenon does not occur because a typical listener with SNHL experiences abnormally loud sounds, but because the speech is now at a higher level and therefore a higher loudness. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1691

Loudness recruitment, the abnormally rapid growth of loudness, can lead to a number of difficulties in everyday communication. For listeners who do not wear hearing aids, talkers often have to raise the level of their voices to be heard by a listener with SNHL. By raising the level of the voice, however, the listener may now have a perception that the speech is too loud. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1691

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines loudness recruitment as abnormally rapid growth of loudness, a core clinical concept for the reader’s purposes.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1691