Development of a Danish speech intelligibility test
Authors:
Jens Bo Nielsen a;
Torsten Dau a
| Affiliation: | a Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark |
DOI:
10.1080/14992020903019312
Publication Frequency:
11 issues per year
Published in:
International Journal of Audiology,
Volume
48,
Issue
10
October
2009
, pages 729
- 741
First Published:
October
2009
Subjects:
Audiology;
Rehabilitation Medicine;
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Previously published as:
Audiology
(0020-6091)
until 31 December 2001
Previously published as:
International Audiology
(0538-4915)
until 1971
Also incorporating: Scandinavian Audiology
Also incorporating: British Journal of Audiology
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Abstract
A Danish speech intelligibility test for assessing the speech recognition threshold in noise (SRTN) has been developed. The test consists of 180 sentences distributed in 18 phonetically balanced lists. The sentences are based on an open word-set and represent everyday language. The sentences were equalized with respect to intelligibility to ensure uniform SRTN assessments with all lists. In contrast to several previously developed tests such as the hearing in noise test (HINT) where the equalization is based on scored (objective) measures of word intelligibility, the present test used an equalization method based on subjective assessments of the sentences. The new equalization method is shown to create lists with less variance between the SRTNs than the traditional method. The number of sentence levels included in the SRTN calculation was also evaluated and differs from previous tests. The test was verified with 14 normal-hearing listeners; the overall SRTN lies at a signal-to-noise ratio of -3.15 dB with a standard deviation of 1.0 dB. The list-SRTNs deviate less than 0.5 dB from the overall mean.
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| Keywords: Speech intelligibility assessment; Equalization of intelligibility; HINT; Speech perception |
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