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Already in the 1975 edition of Szegő's famous monograph the generalized Hermite polynomials \(H_n^{(\mu)}(x),\;\mu > -1/2\) were introduced in terms of Laguerre polynomials \[ H_{2n}^{(\mu)}(x)=(-1)^n2^{2n}n! L_n^{(\mu - 1/2)}(x^2),\quad H_{2n+1}^{(\mu)}(x)=(-1)^n2^{2n+1}n!x L_n^{(\mu + 1/2)}(x^2). \tag{1} \] The authors now turn to the \(q\)-Laguerre polynomials [cf. \textit{W. Hahn}, Math. Nachr. 2, 4--34 (1949; Zbl 0031.39001) and \textit{D. S. Moak}, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 81, 20--47 (1981; Zbl 0459.33009)] to define the \(q\)-Hermite polynomials \({\mathcal H}^{(\mu)}_n (x;q)\) by (1) with the Laguerre polynomials replaced by their \(q\)-analogues \(L_n^{(\alpha)}(x;q)\). For \(\mu=0\) they were studied by the same three authors in [Bol. Soc. Mat. Mex., III. Ser. 8, No. 2, 127--139 (2002; Zbl 1024.33015)]. In the paper under review, the explicit form of the orthogonality relation is derived, for arbitrary \(\mu\), as an integral over the real axis with weight \(| x| ^{2\mu}/E_q(x^2)\), where \(E_q\) is the Jackson \(q\)-exponential function \[ E_q(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\, {q^{n(n-1)/2} \over (q;q)_n}z^n = (-z;q)_{\infty}, \] and they give the three-term recurrence relation explicitly \[ {\mathcal H}^{(\mu)}_{n+1}(x;q)+ \left(1-q^{n/2+\mu \theta_n}\right) {\mathcal H}^{(\mu)}_{n-1}(x;q) = q^{n/2+n\theta_n}x{\mathcal H}^{(\mu)}_n (x;q), \] with \(\theta_n=n-2[n/2]\),\ \([m]\) the entire function.